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c. 1885 (later reworked)

Odilon Redon
French, 1840-1916

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Odilon Redon
Title: Suggestion
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.: 1880–1890
Medium: Various charcoals and black pastel (a later reworking), with touches of black Conté crayon, incising, stumping, wiping, erasing, and subtractive brushwork, on pale-pink wove paper with red and blue fibers altered to a golden tone
Inscriptions: Signed lower right, in orange pencil: "ODILON REDON"
Dimensions: 52.4 × 36.8 cm (20 11/16 × 14 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph R. Shapiro
Reference Number: 1990.510.2
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Paul Adam, Review of the Indépendants exhibition, source unknown (1887).
François Bournand, La Curiosité (April 3, 1887).
Charles Frémine, La Rappel (March 27, 1887).
Joris Karl Huysmans, “Chronique d’art: Les Indépendants,” La Revue Indépendante (April 1887), p. 57.
Gustave Kahn, “La Vie artistique,” La Vie moderne (9 April 1887).
Mazade, Le Masque (April 4, 1887).
Mazade, Le Masque (April 25, 1887).
Mazade, Le Petit Morrise (April 30, 1887).
Alec Wildenstein, Odilon Redon, Catalogue raisonné de l’oeuvre peint et dessiné I (Paris, 1992), p. 83, no. 190 (ill.).
Barbara Larson, The Dark Side of Nature: Science, Society, and the Fantastic in the Work of Odilon Redon (University Park, Penn., 2005), pp. xi, and 151, fig. 139.

Paris, Salon des artistes indépendants, 3ème exposition, March 26-May 3, 1887, no. 402.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “The Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Randall Shapiro Collection,” February 23-April 14, 1985, pp. 98 and 112, cat. 137, fig. 100.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Odilon Redon, The Prince of Dreams 1840-1916,” July 2-September 18, 1994, no. 93, cat. by Douglas Druick et al; also traveled to the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, October 20, 1994-January 15, 1995 and the Royal Academy of Arts, London, February 16–May 21, 1995.

Sold to Jules Destrée (died 1936), Brussels, April 10, 1893 [Chicago 1994]. Sold, Paul Brandt, Amsterdam, April 8-9, 1952, lot 672. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph R. Shapiro, by 1985 [Chicago 1985]; given to the Art Institute, 1990.

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