Head of Man in Shell

Prints and Drawings

c. 1910

Odilon Redon
French, 1840-1916

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Artist: Odilon Redon
Title: Head of Man in Shell
Place: France (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Made 1905–1915
Medium: Watercolor, with black chalk and pen and brown-black ink, on ivory wove paper
Inscriptions: Signed recto, lower right, in brush and red ink: "ODILON REDON"; inscribed recto, lower left, in pen and brown-black ink: "à mon ami / O. Redon"; verso, upper left, in graphite: "559016"
Dimensions: 24.7 × 17.2 cm (9 3/4 × 6 13/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 2012.91

Klaus Berger, Odilon Redon: Fantasy and Colour (McGraw-Hill, 1964), p. 221, no. 538.
Alec Wildenstein, Odilon Redon: Catalogue raisonné de l’oeuvre peint et dessiné 2 (Paris, 1994), p. 188, no. 1112 (ill.).
Suzanne Folds McCullagh (ed.), Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection, exh. cat. (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 2006), pp. 143, cat. 102 (ill.).
Alec Wildenstein, Odilon: Catalogue raisonne de l’oeuvre peint et dessine 2 (Wildenstein, 1994), p. 188, no. 1112 (ill.).

New York, New Gallery, “Odilon Redon,” Nov. 11–28, 1958, cat. 32.
New York, Museum of Modern Art, “Redon, Moreau, Bresdin,” Dec. 4, 1961–Feb. 4, 1962, cat. 65.
Art Institute of Chicago, “Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection,” June 3–July 30, 2006, p. 143, cat. 102 (ill.).

Louis Macmillan, New York, by Nov. 1958-at least Apr. 1962. Sold by Peter H. Deitsch (1924-1970), New York, to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, Brookline, MA, Nov. 30, 1962; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2012.

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