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Odilon Redon

Below, I Saw the Vaporous Contours of a Human Form

1896
lithograph on China paper laid on wove paper

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One of Redon's greatest patrons, the occultist René Philipon, commissioned this portfolio as a supplement for his French translation of Bulwer-Lytton's The Haunted and the Haunters.

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