A Trial Plate for Mallarmé's "Un coup de dés" (A Throw of the Dice)
Odilon Redon French
Not on view
Despite their close relationship, Redon and the Symbolist poet Stéphane Mallarmé worked together only once. Dealer and publisher Ambroise Vollard commissioned the artist to produce a series of lithographs to accompany an edition of Mallarmé’s "Un coup de dés jamais n’abolira le hasard" (A throw of the dice will never abolish chance). This is one of four prints that resulted though the project was abandoned after the poet’s death in 1898. The indecipherable quality of Redon’s image matches the ambiguity of the text.
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