France, 19th century / 1890
Closed Eyes
The Cleveland Museum of Art catalogs Closed Eyes as print (France, 19th century · 1890).
Despite its androgynous look, this figure has been identified as a portrait of Redon´s wife, Camille Falte.
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The museum identifies this print as lithograph on China paper laid on wove paper and credits Odilon Redon (French, 1840–1916).
The museum's collection notes: Odilon Redon explored the image of an androgynous figure with closed eyes in several of his works. He saw the expression as representative of a meditative shift inward and away from the constraints of modern society. By drawing lightly on a lithographic stone, Redon made faint lines that subtly modeled and shaded the head and shoulders while contrasting with the more sketchily drawn, inexplicable landscape in the foreground. Part of the Print Club of Cleveland’s early gift of lithographs by Redon to the museum, this impression is a unique trial proof, printed while the artist was collaborating with master printer Becquet to assess the composi
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