Odilon Redon (1840-1916)
Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880)
La Tentation de Saint Antoine Paris: Ambroise Vollard, 1933
Folio (45 × 33.5 cm), loose sheets, illustrated cover
Illustration: 22 off-text lithographs by Odilon Redon, printed on Chine-appliqué paper and 15 woodcuts
From an edition of 220 copies. One of 185 copies on Arches wove paper (n°187).
Complete
Odilon Redon illustrated this work by Gustave Flaubert three times. The same lithographs were used for the edition of 1933, whose woodcuts were made around 1910. Initially distributed in few copies, the book was finally published in 1938, shortly before the death of Ambroise Vollard.
Bibliography:
-A. Mellerio, Odilon Redon. The Prints - The Graphic Work. Catalog raisonné, no. 83-93.
-A. Werner, The Graphic works of Odilon Redon: 209 lithographs and engravings, n°69-75.
