Works On Paper Collection


Odilon Redon

Child Marcel Mellerio

 

French, 1840-1916
Child Marcel Mellerio
1899
chalk and pastel on gray paper
1967.13

15 x 12 1/2 inches

Odilon Redon met André Mellerio, his future biographer, in 1899. It seems likely that the subject of this drawing was Mellerio's son, Marcel, whose name is written in parentheses following the title on the label for the Belier sale. 

—Margy P. Sharpe


 

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