(REDON ODILON) Flaubert Gustave La Tentation de Saint Antoin

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(REDON, ODILON.) Flaubert, Gustave. La Tentation de Saint-Antoine. 40 lithographed plates with printed captions in lower margins, including 28 full-page, after Redon's three series of drawings from 1888, 1889, and 1896. Typography by Philippe Gonin. 400x299 mm; 15 3/4x11 3/4 inches (sheets). Folio, printed cream wrappers; board chemise and slipcase, worn and soiled; internally fine. Paris: Les Amis d'Odilon Redon / Philippe Gonin, 1935

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number 46 of 110 copies signed by artist's son arï from a total edition of 130. Unpublished in his lifetime, but realized by Les Amis de Redon under the direction of Abel Desjardins, Arï Redon, and M. E. Fasquelle. "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, 11.