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Child Marcel Mellerio
Odilon Redon
Works on Paper
French, 1840-1916
Child Marcel Mellerio
1899
chalk and pastel on gray paper
1967.13
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