Des Esseintes (Odilon Redon)
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| - | [[Des Esseintes (Odilon Redon)]] is a drawing by [[Odilon Redon]], it is the frontispiece to ''[[À Rebours]]'' by [[Joris-Karl Huysmans]]. It depicts a pale-faced and sickly [[Des Esseintes]] sitting in a chair. | + | [[Des Esseintes (Odilon Redon)]] is a drawing by [[Odilon Redon]], it is the frontispiece to ''[[À Rebours]]'' by [[Joris-Karl Huysmans]]. It depicts a pale-faced and sickly [[Des Esseintes]] sitting in a chair. |
| :"Joris-Karl Huysmans, a friend and avid supporter of Redon, commissioned this frontispiece for a special edition of his decadent novel ''[[À Rebours]]'', first published in 1884. The book described the solitary existence and singular tastes of the aesthete Des Esseintes. Redon depicts the [[sickly]] character slumped in a [[chair]], surrounded by his books and other possessions, which he spends the course of the novel surveying. One of Des Esseintes' pleasures was collecting Redon's noirs: They contained the most fantastic visions ... Sometimes Redon's subjects actually seemed to be borrowed from the nightmares of science ... creating a new type of fantasy, born of sickness and delirium ... [Des Esseintes turned] to gaze at a radiant figure, which ... stood out calm and serene: the figure of Melancholy, seated ... before a disk-like sun."[https://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/gallery/redon/gallery/4/page905b.html?p=2] | :"Joris-Karl Huysmans, a friend and avid supporter of Redon, commissioned this frontispiece for a special edition of his decadent novel ''[[À Rebours]]'', first published in 1884. The book described the solitary existence and singular tastes of the aesthete Des Esseintes. Redon depicts the [[sickly]] character slumped in a [[chair]], surrounded by his books and other possessions, which he spends the course of the novel surveying. One of Des Esseintes' pleasures was collecting Redon's noirs: They contained the most fantastic visions ... Sometimes Redon's subjects actually seemed to be borrowed from the nightmares of science ... creating a new type of fantasy, born of sickness and delirium ... [Des Esseintes turned] to gaze at a radiant figure, which ... stood out calm and serene: the figure of Melancholy, seated ... before a disk-like sun."[https://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/gallery/redon/gallery/4/page905b.html?p=2] | ||
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Des Esseintes (Odilon Redon) is a drawing by Odilon Redon, it is the frontispiece to À Rebours by Joris-Karl Huysmans. It depicts a pale-faced and sickly Des Esseintes sitting in a chair.
- "Joris-Karl Huysmans, a friend and avid supporter of Redon, commissioned this frontispiece for a special edition of his decadent novel À Rebours, first published in 1884. The book described the solitary existence and singular tastes of the aesthete Des Esseintes. Redon depicts the sickly character slumped in a chair, surrounded by his books and other possessions, which he spends the course of the novel surveying. One of Des Esseintes' pleasures was collecting Redon's noirs: They contained the most fantastic visions ... Sometimes Redon's subjects actually seemed to be borrowed from the nightmares of science ... creating a new type of fantasy, born of sickness and delirium ... [Des Esseintes turned] to gaze at a radiant figure, which ... stood out calm and serene: the figure of Melancholy, seated ... before a disk-like sun."[1]
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