Collaborating with a professional printer who specialized in the complex process of combining multiple lithographic stones to produce color prints, Redon recreated his ethereal pastel Béatrice for a group portfolio published by Ambroise Vollard. Compared with the rich blacks of his monochromatic lithographs, this print is remarkable in the delicacy with which pale hues of grey-green, yellow, and blue were overlaid and blended from three separate stones. - JG, Waking Dreams Although Redon was highly skilled as a draftsman and experienced in creating black-and-white lithographs, he did not have the technical expertise to produce a color print of such complexity as is seen in Béatrice. The delicate palette is achieved by the subtle overlaying and blending of pale hues of grey-green, yellow, and blue from three separate stones. Auguste Clot, uncredited by publisher Vollard, was responsible for translating Redon's original pastel into the medium of color lithography. The extent of the artist's involvement in the production of this print was his gesture of signing the individual impressions in pencil.