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This print represents Odilon Redon’s fullest experimentation with color lithography. Although he occasionally printed works in a single color, he only made one work in a full range of tones. Revisiting the subject of a pastel from about a decade earlier, <em>Beatrice </em>portrays a recurring figure in Redon’s work—the woman who inspired Italian poet Dante Alighieri (1265–1321). Working with his frequent collaborators during the 1890s, printer Auguste Clot and publisher Ambroise Vollard, Redon used muted shades to suggest Beatrice’s ethereal presence and her timeless role as an artistic muse.
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- Title: Beatrice
- Creator: Odilon Redon (French, 1840–1916), Auguste Clot (French, 1858–1936), Ambroise Vollard (French, 1867–1939)
- Date Created: 1897
- Physical Dimensions: Image: 33.6 x 29.6 cm (13 1/4 x 11 5/8 in.)
- Provenance: (Yvonne Conter, Geneva, sold to the Print Club of Cleveland, Cleveland, OH), The Print Club of Cleveland, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Type: Print
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1931.50
- Medium: color lithograph on China paper laid on wove paper
- State of work: I/I
- Inscriptions: Signed, lower right of image, in graphite: ODILON REDON; initialed on stone, upper right corner: OR
- Fun Fact: This print was published in <em>L'Album d'Estampes Originales</em>, a portfolio of lithographs edited by Vollard that included works by some of the leading artists of the day including Bonnard, Cézanne, Toulouse-Lautrec, Vuillard, and Whistler.
- Edition of Work: edition of 100
- Department: Prints
- Culture: France, late 19th Century
- Credit Line: Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland
- Collection: PR - Lithograph
- Accession Number: 1931.50
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