Flower Clouds by Odilon Redon
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Flower Clouds

Odilon Redon · c. 1903

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Sold by the artist to Charles Waltner, Paris, February 1904 [Chicago 1994]; Charles Waltner, to 1926 [Wildenstein 1996]. Marcel Kapferer, Paris, c. 1930 [Wildenstein 1996]. Vogel, Versoix, Switzerland, 1947 [Wildenstein 1996]. Private collection, Switzerland, c. 1989 [Wildenstein 1996]. Sold, Hôtel des Ventes, Enghein, France, November 21, 1989, lot 8. Sold by Altman-Burke Fine Art Inc., New York, to the Art Institute, 1990.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • Paris, Grand Palais, Salon d’automne, October 18-November 25, 1905, cat. 1311, as "Marine".
  • Paris, Hôtel de Ville, "Cercle d’art moderne," June 1906, cat. 27, as "Barque".
  • Paris, Galerie Barbazanges, "Odilon Redon," May 18- June 15, 1920, cat. 136, as "Barque au soleil couchant".
  • Paris, Galerie H. Odermatt, Ph. Cazeau, "Maîtres des XIX et XX Siècles," May 4-July 28, 1990, cat. 8.
  • The Art Institute of Chicago, "Odilon Redon: Prince of Dreams 1840-1916," July 2-September 18, 1994, no. 137, cat. by Douglas Druick, et al; the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, October 20, 1994-January 15, 1995, and the Royal Academy of Arts, London, February 16-May 21, 1995.
  • The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Broad Spectrum: Color on Paper, Past and Present," September 12–October 31, 1999, p. 256-257 (detail ill.).
  • The Art Institute of Chicago, "Strange Realities: The Symbolist Imagination", October 4, 2025 - January 5, 2026.

Literature

Published references

  • Henry Eon, Le Siècle (October 17, 1905).
  • Louis Vauxcelles, "Salle 1," Le Gil Blas (October 17, 1905).
  • Aubry, Le Petit Havre (November 7, 1905).
  • Quentin, Le Moniteur du XXème Siècle (November 5, 1905).
  • Ètienne Charles, "Odilon Redon," La Liberté (March 24, 1906).
  • M. Giry, "L’oeuvre de Redon et sa signification ver 1905," L’imformation d’histoire de l’art 2 (March-April 1970), p. 69.
  • The Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report (1989-1990), p. 5 (ill.).
  • "La Chronique des Arts. Principales Acquisitions des Musées en 1990," Gazette des Beaux-Arts (March 1991), p. 61 (ill.).
  • James N. Wood and Sally Ruth May, The Art Institute of Chicago: The Essential Guide (Chicago, 1993), p. 215 (ill.).
  • Oktavia Christ, "Wiederentdexkung eines Mystikers," Kunst und Antiquitäten (December 1994), p. 17 (ill.).
  • J. Coignard, "Odilon Redon, Prince des Mystérieux Rêves," Beaux-Arts Magazine (December 1994), p. 92-93 (ill.).
  • Alec Wildenstein, Odilon Redon, Catalogue raisonné de l’oeuvre peint et dessiné 3 (Paris, 1996), p. 352, no. 1954 (ill.).

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