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Collection Online as of April 19, 2024

Closed Eyes

Closed Eyes

1890
(French, 1840–1916)
printer

Becquet

(French)
France, 19th century
lithograph on China paper laid on wove paper
Image: 31.2 x 24.2 cm (12 5/16 x 9 1/2 in.)
Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland 1927.306
Catalogue raisonné: Mellerio 107
Location: not on view

Did You Know?

Despite its androgynous look, this figure has been identified as a portrait of Redon´s wife, Camille Falte.

Description

Odilon Redon explored the image of an androgynous figure with closed eyes in several of his works. He saw the expression as representative of a meditative shift inward and away from the constraints of modern society. By drawing lightly on a lithographic stone, Redon made faint lines that subtly modeled and shaded the head and shoulders while contrasting with the more sketchily drawn, inexplicable landscape in the foreground. Part of the Print Club of Cleveland’s early gift of lithographs by Redon to the museum, this impression is a unique trial proof, printed while the artist was collaborating with master printer Becquet to assess the composition’s progress.
  • ?-1927
    (Marcel Guiot, Paris, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH)
    1927-
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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    The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 660 archive.org
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. Reproduced: p. 181 archive.org
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. Reproduced: p. 181 archive.org
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 224 archive.org
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    Charles Meryon, Odilon Redon, and Rodolphe Bresdin. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 1, 1978-April 1, 1979).
    The Milieu of Edvard Munch. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 5-June 5, 1977).
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  • {{cite web|title=Closed Eyes|url=false|author=Odilon Redon, Becquet|year=1890|access-date=19 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1927.306