Le Polype difforme flottait sur les rivages, sorte de cyclope souriant et hideux (The deformed polyp floated on the shores, a sort of smiling and hideous Cyclops)

Creator Name

Odilon Redon

Cultural Context

Date

1883, 1876 to 1900

Source

National Gallery of Art

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Title

Le Polype difforme flottait sur les rivages, sorte de cyclope souriant et hideux (The deformed polyp floated on the shores, a sort of smiling and hideous Cyclops)

Creator

Odilon Redon, French, 1840 - 1916, artist

Worktype

Cultural Context

Material

lithograph on chine appliqué on wove paper

Dimensions

image (chine appliqué): 21.4 × 20 cm (8 7/16 × 7 7/8 in.) sheet: 54.7 × 36 cm (21 9/16 × 14 3/16 in.)

Technique

Language

Date

1883, 1876 to 1900

Provenance

Rosenwald Collection; Donor: Lessing Julius Rosenwald; Source: Lessing Julius Rosenwald

Style Period

Rights

CC0

Inscription

recto: in stone, at lower right: ODILON REDON; printed below image at left: Odilon Redon del et lith; printed below image at right: Imp. Lemercier & Cie. Paris; at bottom left in graphite in later hand: A. M. 47; verso: none; recto: none; verso: National Gallery of Art

Location

French

Source

National Gallery of Art

Subjects

Monster; Eye

Topic

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