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Odilon Redon

V. The Sphinx: My gaze, which nothing can deflect, passes through the things and remains fixed on an inaccessible horizon. The Chimera: I am weightless and joyful!
From the series "To Gustave Flaubert. Six Drawings for The Temptation of Saint Anthony"

Artist

Odilon Redon
Bordeaux 1840 – Paris 1916

Title

V. The Sphinx: My gaze, which nothing can deflect, passes through the things and remains fixed on an inaccessible horizon. The Chimera: I am weightless and joyful!
From the series "To Gustave Flaubert. Six Drawings for The Temptation of Saint Anthony"

Date

1889

Materials

Lithograph, only state

Dimensions

54.8 x 35.9 cm

Credits

Purchase, Wake Robin Fund in memory of Nelo St.B. Harrison, inv. 2005.38.6

Collection

Graphic Arts

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