About This Artwork
Odilon Redon
French, 1840-1916
Portrait of Ari Redonc. 1898
Pastel on pale blue wove paper faded to gray
448 x 308 mm
Signed lower left, in pencil: "ODILON REDON"
Bequest of Kate L. Brewster, 1950.130
Prints and Drawings
Not on Display
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Exhibition History
Paris, Musée des Arts Decoratifs, "Exposition Retrospective de l'Oeuvre d'Odilon Redon," March 1926, cat. 97.
New York, Museum of Modern Art, "Odilon Redon, Gustave Moreau, Rodolphe Bresdin," December 4, 1961-February 4, 1962, p. 77 (ill.); shown only at The Art Institute of Chicago, March 2-April 15, 1962.
The Art Institute of Chicago, "European Portraits 1600-1900 in The Art Institute of Chicago," July 8-September 11, 1978, cat. 34.
The Art Institute of Chicago, May 1, 1988-December 15, 1989.
The Art Institute of Chicago, "Odilon Redon: Prince of Dreams," July 2-September 18, 1994, cat. 126, cat. by Douglas Druick et al.; traveled to Amsterdam, October 20, 1994-January 15, 1995; and London, February 16-May 21, 1995.
Publication History
Klaus Berger, Odilon Redon: Fantasy and Colour (New York, 1965), no. 386.
The Graphic Works of Odilon Redon : 209 Lithographs, Etchings and Engravings / with an introduction by Alfred Werner (NY: Dover Publications, 1969), no. 41.
Jean Cassou, Odilon Redon (Milan, 1972), p. 15 (ill.).
Alec Wildenstein, Odilon: Catalogue raisonne de l'oeuvre peint et dessine 1 (Paris, 1992), p. 23, no. 41 (ill.).
Ownership History
The artist to his son, Ari Redon [according to old label previously on the back of the frame]. Sold by Chester H. Johnson Galleries, Chicago, to Walter Brewster (1872-1954), Chicago, October 27, 1926 [invoice]; bequeathed by his wife, Kate L. Brewster (c. 1879-1947), to the Art Institute, 1950.