May 01, 2003 - Sale 1969

Sale 1969 - Lot 346

Unsold
Estimate: $ 20,000 - $ 30,000
ODILON REDON
Tête de femme avec fleurs au corsage.

Lithograph on gray wove paper, 1900. 255x197 mm; 101/8x73/4 inches, full margins. One of only 2 proofs on gray wove paper, from a total of only 4 proofs. Initialed in pencil, lower right, and titled (by the artist's wife ?) in pencil, lower center. Annotated by Earl L. Cushman in pencil, verso. Time stain. A superb, dark impression of this extremely scarce print.

According to Mellerio, "Il n'existe de cette planche rarissime que quatre exemplaires: A. Deux tirés sur papier blanc. B. Et deux autres tirés sur papier gris." Mellerio 189.