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Odilon Redon
To Edgar Poe (The Eye, Like a Strange Balloon, Mounts toward Infinity) [À Edgar Poe (L'oeil, comme un ballon bizarre se dirige vers l'infini)]1882

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Lithograph in black and gray of a giant eye rendered as a hot-air balloon floating above a dark landscape, with French text below
Artist or Maker
Odilon Redon
France, Bordeaux, 1840-1916
Title
To Edgar Poe (The Eye, Like a Strange Balloon, Mounts toward Infinity) [À Edgar Poe (L'oeil, comme un ballon bizarre se dirige vers l'infini)]
Place Made
France
Date Made
1882
Medium
Lithograph
Dimensions
Sheet: 17 5/8 × 12 3/8 in. (44.77 × 31.43 cm) Image: 10 1/4 × 7 3/4 in. (26.04 × 19.69 cm)
Credit Line
Wallis Foundation Fund in memory of Hal B. Wallis
Accession Number
AC1997.14.1.1
Classification
Prints
Collecting Area
Prints and Drawings
Selected Bibliography
  • Hendrix, Lee, ed. Noir: the Romance of Black in 19th Century French Drawings and Prints. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2016.
  • Rosa de Carvalho, Fleur Roos. "Noir: Infinite Shades of Black in Nineteenth-Century Art." Print Quarterly 35, no.1 (2018): 102-6.