Odilon Redon (1840-1916 )Captive Pegasus. 1889. Lithograph. 295 x 338. Mellerio 102. Very nice and fresh proof on chine appliqué, with the lithographed mention above the subject on the right "Pegasus captive 100 exemp.", from the 2nd state (of 2) of the retouched stone. The chine very slightly detached in the upper right corner. Small remnants of old mounting tabs and light dusting to the edges of the folio on the reverse. All margins [448 x 618]. Print run announced at 100 proofs (but not made in full). "In the catalog of his works contained in the "livre de raison", Redon indicates that the print run by Becquet of the Captive Pegasus was not completed. Of the hundred copies announced, only twenty-five were actually printed in the first state and fifty in the second and final state [...] Executed in 1889, the lithograph was reprinted two years later by the artist to produce a second state, the proofs of which were distributed through Redon's usual intermediaries, Durand-Ruel and Laurent Dumont in Paris and Edmond Deman in Brussels . Sold for 10 francs in 1891, this isolated piece is one of Redon's most frequently exhibited prints, highly appreciated by critics, collectors, and artists alike, among them the sculptor Antoine Bourdelle [who drew a copy]. [ A symbol of liberated creativity and poetic inspiration, the winged horse figures prominently in Redon's iconographic repertoire. (Valérie Sueur-Hermel, in R. Rapetti, ed. in Odilon Redon Prince du Rêve, exhibition catalog, Paris, RMN, 2011, p. 220).