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Oannes: “I, the first consciousness of chaos, arose from the abyss to harden matter, to regulate forms” (Oannes: Moi, la première conscience du chaos, j’ai surgi de l’abime pour durcir la matière, pour régler les formes)

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Oannes: “I, the first consciousness of chaos, arose from the abyss to harden matter, to regulate forms” (Oannes: Moi, la première conscience du chaos, j’ai surgi de l’abime pour durcir la matière, pour régler les formes)

1896 (printed 1933)
19th/20th century
430 x 330 mm (16.9 x 13 in.)

Odilon Redon, French, (1840–1916)

Object Type: print

Medium and Support: Lithograph on thin grey wove chine collé on Arches paper

Print impression quality: Fair to very good

Series: from set of 22 lithographs The Temptation of Saint Anthony (La Tentation de Saint Antoine)

Edition: Number 166 from edition of 210 (plus ten copies hors commerce) of the set of 22 (originally 24) lithographic illustrations printed by Auguste Clot for Gustave Flaubert’s La Tentation de Saint Antoine (Paris: Editions Ambroise Vollard, 1933), 206 pages text as unbound double sheets in portfolio. This group of lithographs at the DAC consists of 22 of the original 24 "third series" Tentation illustrations printed by Clot and Blanchard in 1896; plates 1 and 8 are not included in the DAC group.

Bibliography: Mellerio 147; Johnson 138; Trapp, The Temptation of Saint Anthony by Odilon Redon (Amherst, MA: Mead Art Museum, 1980); the English titles are from Werner, The Graphic Works of Odilon Redon (New York: Dover, 1969).

Credit Line: Purchase funds, 1961

Accession Number: 1961.1.14

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Bible, New Testament, religions, religious art*, saints*

Bible
New Testament
religions
religious art - Use broadly for art depicting religious subjects or for art used in worship. [September 1993 descriptor added.]
saints - Related Term

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sheet Dimensions: 430 x 330 mm (16.9 x 13 in.)

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Odilon Redon, French, (1840–1916) . Oannes: “I, the first consciousness of chaos, arose from the abyss to harden matter, to regulate forms” (Oannes: Moi, la première conscience du chaos, j’ai surgi de l’abime pour durcir la matière, pour régler les formes), 1896 (printed 1933). From The Temptation of Saint Anthony (La Tentation de Saint Antoine). Lithograph on thin grey wove chine collé on Arches paper. sheet : 430 x 330 mm (16.9 x 13 in.). DAC accession number 1961.1.14. Purchase funds, 1961. (photo: M. Johnston) .

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