Redon

1896 · réf. 48705 — Paris.: Published by the author. 1896. Contemporary full fawn crushed morocco by Thierry St. de Petit-Simier with his signature gilt gilt title to upper board inner dentelles ruled in gilt marbled endpapers. Folio. Title page with vignette printed in purple on Japon and 23 monochrome lithographs by Redon 22 are signed in pencil printed on chine and mounted to larger sheets. Printed by Clot and Blanchard Paris. From the edition limited to 50 copies.The complete album comprising the title-page with the lithographed vignette printed in purple on Japon signed in purple by Redon and the set of 23 lithographs to illustrate Flaubert's text printed on chine appliqué all with the exception of one signed individually in pencil with the small capitals within subject.Redon spent much of 1895 making La Tentation de St. Antoine. 3me. Série his first album of lithographs in five years. He produced only one more album of lithographs Apocalypse de St. Jean in 1899.'Flaubert's first magnum opus retelling the temptations that afflicted Saint Anthony was completed over twenty-five years before its publication in 1874. The mystical trials were compelling subjects for Redon who made three sets of illustrations in which he tried to fathom their symbolic content. The last and largest series of lithographs on the temptations this set was commissioned by Vollard and issued in 1896 many decades before they were incorporated into book form after the artist's death.' Castleman.Manet to Hockney 13; Castleman 11; Logan 6. Published by the author. unknown