Stéphane Mallarmé
1897
Medium
Transfer lithograph with crayon and scraping in green on cream Japanese paper
Dimensions
Image: 37.3 × 29.2 cm (14 11/16 × 11 1/2 in.); Sheet: 63.7 × 43.8 cm (25 1/8 × 17 1/4 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
13521
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
Stéphane Mallarmé is today considered one of France’s most important poets of the second half of the nineteenth century. Although he was known for the obscure imagery and difficult syntax of his verse, Mallarmé enjoyed the friendship of other modern thinkers, in particular, Impressionist and Post-Impressionist artists such as Édouard Manet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Odilon Redon, Edgar Degas, Paul Gauguin, and James McNeill Whistler. Despite the fact that much of his poetry is unabashedly extreme a...
About the Artist
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