Cell

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Odilon Redon
French, 1840-1916

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Odilon Redon
Title: Cell
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.: 1860–1916
Medium: Charcoal, black chalk and black pastel with stumping and erasing, on pale pink wove paper with red and blue fibers, discolored to pinkish-tan
Inscriptions: No signature visible
Dimensions: 50.8 × 37.8 cm (20 × 14 15/16 in.)
Credit Line: David Adler Collection
Reference Number: 1950.1421

Klaus Berger, translated by Michael Bullock, Odilon Redon: Fantasy and Colour (New York, 1965), p. 230, no. 664.
Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the 19th Century (Chicago, 1979), p. 81, no. 4E5.
Alec Wildenstein, Odilon Redon: Catalogue Raisonné de l’Oeuvre Peint et Dessiné I (Paris, 1992), pp. 121-122, no. 289 (ill.).

The Art Institute of Chicago, “Exhibition of 19 charcoals owned by Jean Goriany [or Henri Petiet] made for Flaubert’s The Temptation of Saint Anthony,” August, 1941.
New York, Museum of Modern Art, “Odilon Redon, Drawings and Lithographs,” February 13-April 20, 1952, cat. 19.
Palm Beach, Fla., Society of the Four Arts, “Odilon Redon,” March 18-April 3, 1955, cat. 40.
New York, Museum of Modern Art, “Odilon Redon, Gustave Moreau, Rodolphe Bresdin,” December 4, 1961-February 4, 1962, cat. 118, as Shrouded Woman; traveled to The Art Institute of Chicago, March 2-April 15, 1962.
Paris, Galleries Nationales du Grand Palais, “Odilon Redon, Prince du Reve 1840-1916”, March 22 - June 20, 2011, p. 138, cat. 29, Rudolph Rapetti et. al.

Ambroise Vollard (1867-1939), Paris [according to Wildenstein 1992]. Henri Petiet (1894-1980), Paris, by March 1940 [according to Wildenstein 1992]; sold to the Art Institute, 1950.

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