Icones : Rodolphe Bresdin Although Rodolphe Bresdin is best remembered as the master of the more famous Odilon Redon, Baskin avidly celebrated his work. Not only did he amass a sizeable collection of Bresdin's work, he devoted a Gehenna Press volume to previously unpublished Bresdin letters in 1969. This portrait was part of Laus Pictorum, a collection of fifteen portraits of nineteenth-century artists. This pantheon, or, to use Baskin's term, iconologia, honored his predecessors, many of whom had been neglected in art historical literature. |