Passage d'une Ame - Original Etching by O. Redon - 1891 1891

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Passage of a Spirit is an original etching, realized by Odilon Redon in 1891, frontispiece for “La Passante”, edition of … more Passage of a Spirit is an original etching, realized by Odilon Redon in 1891, frontispiece for “La Passante”, edition of 420 copies, titled: '' Passage d’une âme ''. Image dimensions: 8.5x5.3 cm. Reference: Cat. Mellerio n.21. In good conditions. Included a walnut frame. Odilon Redon (born Bertrand Redon (1840 -1916) was a French symbolist painter printmaker. He is best known for the ''dreamlike'' paintings created in the first decade of the 20th century, which were inspired by japonese art and which, while continuing to take inspiration from nature, flirted with abstraction. His work is considered a precursor to both Dadaism and Surrealism.He has a unique tendecy of artistic naturalism and symbolic subject matter, and influential among the late 19th century French avant-garde circle. Working in charcoal, pastel, oil, and lithography. Redon described his work as ambiguous and undefinable: My drawings inspire, and are not to be defined. They place us, as does music, in the ambiguous realm of the undetermined. less