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Odilon Redonby Mellerio, Andre (1862-1943) and Odilon Redon (1840-1916)
Book desription: The finely produced, pioneering work on the prints with the first catalog raisonné, the text with extracts from Redon's writings. Offered is a complete example of the first edition, 1 of 550 on handmade paper printed in letterpress with the original Redon b/w etching reserved specially for the book, unsigned, as issued, 100 x 140 mm in the plate with the original wide margins, the work bound with the rarely found publisher's forest green wrappers, the upper paper wrapper with an elegant design with black & hunter green letters and center vignette with the publisher's pictorial logo in hunter and moss green, this continued in counterpoint onto the title page, the wrappers bound in cloth boards. Mellerio was intimately familiar with many aspects of Redon's life and work. They met in 1889 and became friends. Mellerio introduced Redon to the artists of the Nabis movement who Redon would influence. With Roger Marx, Mellerio became the leading advocate for Redon's importance in French art. In 1894 he wrote a prefatory essay for the catalog for the Redon exhibition at the Durand Ruel Gallery, expounding what is now understood, that Redon with his new and distinctively French expression of the unconscious and dreaming mind occupied a unique and important position in modern art. Printed in letterpress by A. Gauthier-Villars, the fine phototypies (photolithography) by J. Barry, 1 of 475 unnumbered examples on papier vélin d'Arches (untrimmed, handmade Arches paper), 75 numbered examples were also issued on Japon paper. ETCHING: hand pulled under the supervision of A. Porcabeuf from an 1893 copper plate never printed for sale and later extensively reworked by the artist, numbered by Mellerio in his catalog, no. 25 bis, the head in reverie described, "le croquis d'un profil et tourné vers la droite", offered as issued, bound in, an excellent impression, clean and fresh. FORMAT: Publisher's paper wrappers (spine not retained) decorated with the 4 x 4 cm centered, hunter and moss green vignette with cipher FG, (original handmade Arches endpapers as issued), bound in the sewn binding in later gray asparagus cloth boards, gilt ruled and lettered on the spine, title page in forest green and black letters decorated with a repeat of the publisher's pictorial logo, but in forest green & white, all plates protected by publisher's tissue guards. SIZE: As issued, wrappers are 28 x 22.6 cm or 11.02 x 8.9 inches: boards: 29 x 24 cm. CONDITION DETAIL: Original Etching: Fine. Frontispiece portrait: trace toning at the bottom and top tip of the outer edge, otherwise clean and fresh. Title page: 1 tiny top margin spot. Plates and text pages: fresh and almost entirely clean, only the occasional very small margin spot (3 or 4 pages with a few very small margin spots). Binding: weakened: joints and hinges good: spine slanted back 2 mm: sheets slightly moved from true. Wrappers: don't retain the spine: clean and bright: Upper Wrapper with some rubs and an 8.9 cm uneven, bottom fore-edge tear with loss, varying between .6 and 1.9 cm in width. No other chips or tears. Lower Wrapper: Fine. Boards: clean and bright: rubs and all-around light edgewear: gilt letters rubbed, gilt ruling at foot rubbed off. PAGINATION: Confirmed complete with 208 b/w illustrations. 3 preliminary leaves not part of the pagination, including 1/2 title page, title page, justification, and publishing statement; + 166 pages, introductory text with footnotes including notes on the works, documentation includes a richly annotated bibliography, a section of poems inspired by Redon, including one by Mellerio, an annotated exhibition history, and an alphabetical list of the prints; + 44 b/w plates printed on one side of the sheet, all cataloged graphic works illustrated, generally 4-6 works on a sheet, the facsimile lithograph frontispiece 1904 portrait of Redon and the original Redon etching, the sole works on their own leaves, all plates numbered with Roman numerals, catalogue raisonné in 3 parts; 1) Catalogue de l'Oeuvre Gravé, the original etching follows p. 84 and is the frontispiece for the section, the other 25 etchings reproduced on plates III-VII, 2) Catalogue de l'Oeuvre Lithographié, illustrated by 35 plates, numbers, VIII-XLII, and 3) appendix to the catalog of lithographs with 9 drawings engraved by the Evely process that illustrate Les Fleurs du Mal by Baudelaire (1890), plates XLIII-XLIV reproduce the 9 drawings; + 2 leaves not part of the pagination with the table of contents and printing information, versos blank. 207 graphic works, all illustrated, are described in the catalog, 26 etchings, 172 lithographs and 9 specially reproduced engraved drawings + there is plate I, the frontis portrait of Redon. (Since publication, 7 etchings and 9 lithographs have been described and added to the catalogue raisonné.) A substantial extract from Redon's journal, De Soi-Même (To Myself), Quelques Notes De Odilon Redon A Monsieur A. Bonger is on pp. 49-79, and Fragments d'Une Lettre de Odilon Redon A Edmond Picard, pp. 80-84 with annotations. REFERENCE: Druick, Odilon Redon: Prince of Dreams. Rich, Etchings and Lithographs of Odilon Redon. OCLC catalog. IMAGES: by request.
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