The Origins
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Les Origines[1] (1883, The Origins) is a portfolio of eight prints by Odilon Redon, representing evolution before man. The album was printed by Lemercier et Cie.
Redon was inspired by Armand Clavaud, who Redon knew.
The individual prints were orginally untitled. In a letter to André Mellerio wrote why: "le titre était déjà très lourd" (the title itself being already very heavy".
List of prints (French title)
- Frontispice
- Planche I : Quand s'éveillait la vie au fond de la matière obscure
- Planche II : Il y eut peut-être une vision première, assoupie dans la fleur
- Planche III : Le Polype difforme flottait sur les rivages, sorte de cyclope souriant et hideux
- Planche IV : La Sirène sortit des flots, vêtue de dards
- Planche V : Le Satyre au cynique sourire
- Planche VI : Il y eut des luttes et de vaines victoires
- Planche VII : L'aile impuissante n'éleva point la bête en ces noirs espaces
- Planche VIII : Et l'homme parut, interrogeant le sol d'où il sort et qui l'attire, il se fraya la voie vers de sombres clartés
List of prints (English title)
- The Misshapen Polyp Floated on the Shores, a Sort of Smiling and Hideous Cyclops
- "When life was awakening in the depths of obscure matter"
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