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Illustration for “A Throw of the Dice Will Never Abolish Chance (Un coup de dés jamais n’abolira le hasard)” by Stéphane Mallarmé - Image 1
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Illustration for “A Throw of the Dice Will Never Abolish Chance (Un coup de dés jamais n’abolira le hasard)” by Stéphane Mallarmé - Image 3
Illustration for “A Throw of the Dice Will Never Abolish Chance (Un coup de dés jamais n’abolira le hasard)” by Stéphane Mallarmé - Image 4

Odilon Redon

Illustration for “A Throw of the Dice Will Never Abolish Chance (Un coup de dés jamais n’abolira le hasard)” by Stéphane Mallarmé

1899

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Illustration for “A Throw of the Dice Will Never Abolish Chance (Un coup de dés jamais n’abolira le hasard)” by Stéphane Mallarmé

Odilon Redon

Illustration for “A Throw of the Dice Will Never Abolish Chance (Un coup de dés jamais n’abolira le hasard)” by Stéphane Mallarmé

Odilon Redon

Illustration for “A Throw of the Dice Will Never Abolish Chance (Un coup de dés jamais n’abolira le hasard)” by Stéphane Mallarmé

1899

Physical Qualities Lithograph, Sheet: 357 × 339 mm. (14 1/16 × 13 3/8 in.)
Credit Line Blanche Adler Memorial Fund
Object Number 1956.9
One of four trial lithographs [one lost] commissioned by Ambroise Vollard for a never realized illustrated book "A Throw of the Dice Will Never Abolish Chance (Un coup de dés jamais n'abolira le hasard)" by Stéphane Mallarmé
Redon

Inscribed: In stone, at lower right: "OR [intertwined]"; at lower left, in graphite: "M186 Poems of Malarme [sic] Fr. Pr"; at lower right, in graphite: "65-209 ee B$ $35- 56.9 Adler"

Markings: None

Artist

Odilon Redon

1839–1915

French, 1840-1916
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THE RACE HORSE
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2000
PASSAGE OF A SOUL (PASSAGE D'UNE ÂME)
Odilon Redon
Passage of a Soul (Passage d'une âme)
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THE RIGHT HON. WILLIAM LORD COWPER, LORD HIGH CHANCELLER OF GREAT BRITAIN
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The Right Hon. William Lord Cowper, Lord High Chanceller of Great Britain
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IN THE SHADOWS ARE PEOPLE, WEEPING AND PRAYING, SURROUNDED BY OTHERS WHO ARE EXHORTING THEM (DANS L'OMBRE DES GENS PLEURENT ET PRIENT ENTOURÉS D'AUTRES QUI LES EXHORTENT)
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In the Shadows Are People, Weeping and Praying, Surrounded by Others Who Are Exhorting Them (Dans l'ombre des gens pleurent et prient entourés d'autres qui les exhortent)
1895
PERCHED UPON A BUST OF PALLAS (RAVEN ON THE BUST)
Édouard Manet and J. Lefman
From the book "Edgar Allan Poe, Le Corbeau, translated by Stéphane Mallarmé (Paris: R. Lesclide, 1875)"
1874