ODILON REDON A Gustave Flaubert, Deuxième série de la Tentation de Saint-Antoine.
Complete set of 6 lithographs and lithograph title page on chine-appliqué, 1889. 555x363 mm; 217/8x143/8 inches (sheets), full margins, loose as issued.
Edition of 60. Printed by Becquet, Paris. Published by Dumont, Paris. Very good, clean impressions.
Though introduced to Rembrandt's prints by his mentor Rodolphe Bresdin (see lot 11), Redon (1840-1916) full came under the influence of Rembrandt's work during a trip to the Netherlands in 1878, shortly before he began his first series of lithographs "Dans le Rêve", (published in 1879). According to Mellerio, Redon recalled his travel to Holland as a sort of pilgrimage to Rembrandt (". . . par vénération, comme en pélerinage aux lieux saints où vécut Rembrandt"). Later in his career he reflected: "Rembrandt gave me always new surprises of art. He is the great human element of the infinity of our ecstasy, he gave the moral life to the shade. He created the clair-obscur like Phidias did the line." Mellerio 94-100.
