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Plate V: Then there appears a singular being, having the head of a man on the body of a fish

Odilon REDON
Plate V: Then there appears a singular being, having the head of a man on the body of a fish
(Pl. V: Ensuite, parait un être singulier, ayant une tête d’homme sur un corps de poisson.)
 (1888)
from the Tentation de Saint-Antoine (The Temptation of Saint Anthony) series I 1888

Medium
lithograph on chine appliqué, letterpress text

Measurements
27.3 × 17.1 cm (image) 27.7 × 17.1 cm (chine) 44.8 × 31.6 cm (sheet)

Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Suzette Marie Chapple Bequest, 2024

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Gallery location
Not on display

Artwork Details

Place/s of Execution
Paris, France

Catalogue/s Raisonné
Mellerio 88

Edition
edition of 60

Printing/Publishing
printed by Becquet, Paris, published by Edmond Deman, Brussels

Inscription
printed in ink (in image) l.c.: ODILON REDON

Accession Number
2024.775.5

Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings

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Series

The Temptation of Saint Anthony

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Plate I: …first, a pool of water, then a prostitute, the corner of a temple, a soldier’s face, a chariot with two white, rearing horses.

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Plate II: It is the devil, bearing beneath his two wings the seven deadly sins

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Plate III: And a large bird, descending from the sky, hurls itself against the topmost point of her hair…

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Plate IV: He raises the bronze urn.

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Plate VI: It is a skull wreathed with roses. It dominates a woman’s torso of pearly whiteness.

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Plate VII: The chimera with green eyes turns, bays.

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Plate VIII: And all manner of frightful creatures arise.

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Plate IX: Everywhere eyeballs are aflame.

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Plate X: ….and in the very disk of the sun shines the face of Jesus Christ.

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Cover for: The Temptation of Saint Anthony (Tentation de Saint-Antoine)

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