Human Plant

Prints and Drawings

c. 1880

Odilon Redon
French, 1840-1916

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Odilon Redon
Title: Human Plant
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.: 1870–1916
Medium: Charcoal with black pastel, stumping, scraping and erasing, on ivory wove paper, now discolored.
Inscriptions: Signed lower left, in black crayon: "Od.R."
Dimensions: 47.3 × 34.2 cm (18 5/8 × 13 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: David Adler Collection
Reference Number: 1950.1429

Klaus Berger, translated by Michael Bullock, Odilon Redon: Fantasy and Colour (New York, 1965), p. 229, no. 639 (ill.).
Harold Joachim and Sandra Haller Olsen, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century (Chicago, 1979) p. 80, no. 4E2.
Alec Wildenstein, Odilon Redon: Catalogue Raisonné de l’Oeuvre Peint et Dessiné 2 (Paris, 1994), p. 236, no. 1194 (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, The Museum of Modern Art, “Odilon Redon, Gustave Moreau, Rodolphe Bresdin,” December 4, 1961-February 4, 1962, cat. 96; traveled to The Art Institute of Chicago, March 2-April 15, 1962.
Tokyo, Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum, “The Flora of Odilon Redon: Botanist or Interior Decorator?”, February 8 - May 20, 2018.

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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