The Die, also called the Weight of Passions

Art Institute of Chicago

The Die, also called the Weight of Passions

Odilon Redon

Date
1878/82
Medium
Graphite with pen and black ink, heightened with white lead (discolored) on cream wove paper
Culture
France
Department
Prints and Drawings
Institution
Art Institute of Chicago

This page from a sketchbook relates closely to Redon’s lithograph The Player , plate 5 in his 1879 album The Dream . In his novel Against the Grain (A Rebours) of 1884, Joris-Karl Huysmans described a contemporary charcoal drawing that could have been inspired by this work: “An enormous die where a sad eyelid blinked.”

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