A Mask Sounds the Funeral Knell, plate three from To Edgar Poe by Odilon Redon

A Mask Sounds the Funeral Knell, plate three from To Edgar Poe 1882

drawing, lithograph, print, paper, ink

drawing

portrait image

lithograph

print

charcoal drawing

paper

charcoal art

portrait reference

ink

pencil drawing

portrait head and shoulder

france

limited contrast and shading

portrait drawing

charcoal

statue

"A Mask Sounds the Funeral Knell" is a lithograph by the French Symbolist artist Odilon Redon, created in 1882. This evocative print, part of the series "To Edgar Poe," depicts a skeletal hand pulling a rope attached to a large bell, which hangs above a ghostly white mask. The dark, atmospheric scene evokes a sense of foreboding and mortality, reflecting Redon's fascination with the macabre and the symbolic. This piece is now in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago.