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"

Odilon Redon
Bordeaux 1840 – Paris 1916

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"

1889

Lithograph, only state

54.8 x 35.9 cm

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

Graphic Arts