Day (Le Jour), from the series, Dreams (Songes), plate VI, 1891, Lithograph (only state), on chine collé, image: 8 1/4 x 6 1/8 in. (21 x 15.6 cm), Prints, Odilon Redon (French, Bordeaux 1840–1916 Paris), As a shy and lonely boy in his uncle's remote old house, Redon discovered that books, pictures, and music opened windows onto marvelous vistas. From his childhood on, he maintained an attachment to a world of fantasy and dreams that he often pictured in charcoal drawings and lithographs he called noirs, for both their essential substance and resonance were black
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