Melancholy

1. Sold to Count Giuseppe Primoli (d. 1927), Rome, before January 1886 [Chicago 1994]. Sold, Hôtel des Ventes, Enghien, October 28, 1979, lot 114. Sold, Sotheby’s, London, March 26, 1980, lot 164. Sold by Wolgang Wittrock, Düsseldorf, to the Art Institute, 1982.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• The Art Institute of Chicago, "Great Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago: The Harold Joachim Years 1958-1983," July 24-September 30, 1985, pp. 154-155, cat. 70 (ill.), cat. by Martha Tedeschi.
• The Art Institute of Chicago, "Odilon Redon, The Prince of Dreams 1840-1916," July 2-September 18, 1994, cat. 40, cat. by Douglas Druick, et. al; also traveled to Amsterdam, the Van Gogh Museum, October 20, 1994-January 15, 1995; and London, the Royal Academy of Arts, February 16 –May 21, 1995.
• The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Broad Spectrum: Color on Paper, Past and Present," September 12–October 31, 1999, hors. cat.

• Joris Karl Huysmans, "Le salon officiel de 1881," and "Appendice," L’Art Moderne (1883), p. 300.
• Jules Destrée, "Odilon Redon," La Jeune Belgique (February 1, 1886), p. 133.
• Jules Destrée, L’Oeuvre lithographique de Odilon Redon, Catalogue descriptif (Brussels, 1891), p. 10.
• "À Rebours (1883)," Oeuvres complètes de J. K. Huysmans 7 (Paris, 1929), p. 97.
• G. Vanwelkenhuyzen and J. K. Huysmans, Lettres inédites à Jules Destrée (Geneva, 1967), pp. 67-68.
• World Collectors Annuary XXXII (1980), p. 287.
• Wolfgang Wittrock, "Neuerwerbungen Graphik Zeichnungen," no. 6.
• Martha Tedeschi, Great Drawings from the Art Institute of Chicago: The Harold Joachim Years, 1958-1983 (Chicago, 1985), p. 154 (ill.).
• Rick Brettell, Post-Impressionists (New York, 1987), pp. 51, 54 and 119 (ill.).
• Dario Gamboni, La Plume et le Pinceau, Odilon Redon et la Litérature (Paris, 1989), (ill.).
• Alec Wildenstein, Odilon Redon, Catalogue raisonné de l’Oeuvre Peint et Dessiné 1 (Paris, 1992), p. 233, no. 593 (ill.).
• Oktavia Christ, "Wiederentdeckung eines Mystikers," Kunst und Antiquitäten (December 1994), p. 15 (ill.).

Flower Clouds

Art Institute of Chicago

Andromeda

Art Institute of Chicago

Guardian Spirit of the Waters

Art Institute of Chicago

Still Life with Flowers

Art Institute of Chicago

Flowers: Poppies and Daisies

Art Institute of Chicago

Sita

Art Institute of Chicago

Strange Flower (Little Sister of the Poor)

Art Institute of Chicago

Portrait of Ari Redon

Art Institute of Chicago

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