"This view of the Palace in Alexandria creates a shifting space out of the fluid interplay of light and dark. Unlike the grainy, textured blacks and gradual tonal variations found elsewhere (see Dans l'ombre), light and dark areas appear flat and strongly delineated. The ink was brushed on rather than drawn with the crayon and this is what has given the black its liquidity. Redon used the fluid appearance of the ink to create a face emerging from the shadows between the columns. The difference in style can be linked to Redon having used the accomplished and inventive lithographer, Auguste Clot to print this image. The background too is clear and untextured, so the light similarly flows in through the portal-like window. Rather than gradual tonal gradations, the black and white is sharply juxtaposed, giving a decorative appearance to the architectural space." - The Fitzwilliam Museum: La Tentation de Saint-Antoine

ODILON REDON
"La Mort: C'est moi qui te rends sérieuse;
enlaÁons-nous
(Death: It is I who Makes you serious;
let us embrace each other)
Lithograph, 1896
collection of scattergood-moore
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"This print is stylistically similar to Il tombe dans l'abime. The success of La Mort of 1889 perhaps prompted Redon to return to this scene and create a new version. A swathe of light is left in the wake of the femme-fatale figure of Lust, with the luminous black ink seeming to spread endlessly into the background.

The caption is taken from the same passage in Flaubert's text that Redon depicted in the 1889 version of La Mort, and is perhaps more fitted to that image. This shows how the images were personal responses to Flaubert's writing, rather than descriptive illustrations. In this image the figures are separate, and Death, staring straight at the viewer, seems to be holding up Lust, drawing her up and across the picture plane as she eminates light." - The Fitzwilliams Museum: La Tentation de Saint-Antoine

• La Temtation de Saint-Antoine
• Redon and the Lithographic Revival
• MFA: Two Masters of Fantasy

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