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Odilon Redon · c. 1893
Provenance
Ownership history
- Sold to Galeries Durand Ruel, Paris, April 1899 [Mellerio Redon Account Books, Chicago 1994]. Sold, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, March 17, 1928, lot 7, as "L'évocation". Joseph Winterbotham, Jr. (1878-1954), Chicago and Burlington, Vermont, by 1929 [Chicago 1929]; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1954.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Paris, Galeries Durand-Ruel, "Exposition," March 10-31, 1899, cat. 75.
- Chicago, Arts Club, "Loan Exhibition of Modern Paintings Privately owned by Chicagoans," January 4-18, 1929, cat. 59.
- Chicago, Arts Club, "Exhibition of the Joseph Winterbotham Collection," December 9-31, 1936, cat. 38 as "Evocation".
- New York, Museum of Modern Art, "Odilon Redon, Gustave Moreau, Rodolphe Bresdin," 1961, p. 174, cat. 35; shown only at The Art Institute of Chicago, March 2-April 15, 1962.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, May 1, 1987-December 15, 1989.
- The Art Institute of Chicago,"Odilon Redon, Prince of Dreams, 1840-1916," July 2-September 18, 1994, pp. 230-231 and 444, cat. 114, fig. 44, cat. by Douglas Druick, et al; traveled to Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum, October 20, 1994-January 15, 1995, and London, Royal Academy of Fine Arts, February 16-May 21, 1995.
- Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, "The Rama Epic: Hero, Heroine, Ally, Foe", October 21, 2016 - January 17, 2017, cat. 55, p. 119 (ill.), cat. by Forrest McGill, et. al.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, "Strange Realities: The Symbolist Imagination", October 4, 2025 - January 5, 2026.
Literature
Published references
- Henry Bidou, "Exposition des groupes d'artistes: Galeries Durand-Ruel, 16 rue Lafitte," 1899 [Source unknown, Odilon Redon Exhibition Series, Mellerio Redon Papers, Ryerson and Burnham Libraries at The Art Institute of Chicago].
- Andre Fontainas, "Art Moderne," Le Mercure de France (April 1899), p. 247.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1961), p. 364.
- Klaus Berger, Odilon Redon: Fantasy and Colour, trans. by Michael Bullock (New York, 1965), p. 213, no. 423.
- Alfred Werner, The Graphic Works of Odilon Redon: 209 Lithographs, Etchings and Engravings (New York, 1969), no. 165.
- Harold Joachim and Sandra Haller Olsen, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century, The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1979), no. 4F2.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, The Joseph Winterbotham Collection: A Living Tradition (Chicago, 1986), pp. 13, 43 (ill.), and 59, as Evocation.
- Richard R. Brettell, Post-Impressionists (New York, 1987), pp. 50-53, and 119 (ill.).
- Alec Wildenstein, Odilon Redon: Catalogue raisoné de l'oeuvre peint et dessiné I (Paris, 1992), pp. 60 and 76, no. 165 (ill.).
- S. Takeda, K. Kanikawa, T. Hayahshi and Y. Mikami, Weekly Paintings of the World (March 2000).
- Michael Laclotte, Venceslas Kruta, Alain Erlande-Brandenburg, Claude Mignot, John Goodman, The Art of Paris (2000).
- Barbara Larson, The Dark Side of Nature: Science, Society, and the Fantastic in the Work of Odilon Redon (University Park, Penn., 2005), pp. xii, 188, and 189, fig. 176
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