Works On Paper Collection

Odilon Redon

Child Marcel Mellerio

(1840—1916)
Child Marcel Mellerio 
1899
chalk and pastel on gray paper
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