{"product_id":"20025-redon-odilon-1840-1916-i-will-happily-return-to-your-beautiful-musical-performances-this-year-printed-visiting-card-with-autograph-note","title":"Redon, Odilon. (1840–1916) \"I will happily return to your beautiful musical performances this year\" - Printed Visiting Card with Autograph Note","description":"Printed visiting card of the French symbolist painter and printmaker, who has penned, translated from the French, \"Nov. 1904 \/ With all my gratitude for the invitation. \/ I will happily return to your beautiful musical performances [\"hearings'] this year\" in purple ink.  In fine condition.  3.75 x 2.25 inches (9.5 x 5.7 cm.).\u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e\"Redon's work represents an exploration of his internal feelings and psyche.  He himself wanted to 'place the visible at the service of the invisible'; thus, although his work seems filled with strange beings and grotesque dichotomies, his aim was to represent pictorially the ghosts of his own mind.  A telling source of Redon's inspiration and the forces behind his works can be found in his journal \u003ci\u003eA Soi-meme\u003c\/i\u003e.  His process was explained best by himself when he said: 'I have often, as an exercise and as a sustenance, painted before an object down to the smallest accidents of its visual appearance; but the day left me sad and with an unsatiated thirst.  The next day I let the other source run, that of imagination, through the recollection of the forms and I was then reassured and appeased.'\" (www.odilon-redon.org)\u003cbr style=\"\"\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46093735428255,"sku":"20025","price":275.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/Redon_Odilon_Auitograph_Note_20025.jpg?v=1722189987","url":"https:\/\/www.schubertiademusic.com\/products\/20025-redon-odilon-1840-1916-i-will-happily-return-to-your-beautiful-musical-performances-this-year-printed-visiting-card-with-autograph-note","provider":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}