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(REDON, ODILON.) Flaubert, Gustave. La Tentation de Saint Antoine. 22 lithographs by Redon and 14 woodcuts after Redon (cut by Georges Aubert). 437x330 mm; 17 1/4x13 inches. Folio, contents loose as issued in original printed wrappers (plates in separate folder laid in after text); lacks slipcase. Monod 4708; Mellerio 134-157. Paris: Éditions Ambroise Vollard 1933-38
number 183 of 220 copies on vélin d'arches. "Flaubert's first magnum opus, retelling the temptations that afflicted Saint Anthony, was completed over twenty-five years before its publication in 1874. The mystical trials were compelling subjects for Redon, who made three sets of illustrations in which he tried to fathom their symbolic content. The last and largest series of lithographs on the temptations was commissioned by Vollard and issued in 1896, many decades before they were incorporated into book form after the artist's death"--Castleman 89.
