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Primitive Man

A work made of various charcoals, with touches of black chalk, stumping, wiping and erasing, heightened with touches of white and ocher gouache, on cream wove paper altered to a pale, golden tone.
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  • A work made of various charcoals, with touches of black chalk, stumping, wiping and erasing, heightened with touches of white and ocher gouache, on cream wove paper altered to a pale, golden tone.

Date:

1872

Artist:

Odilon Redon
French, 1840-1916

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Odilon Redon

Title

Primitive Man

Place

France (Artist's nationality:)

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1872

Medium

Various charcoals, with touches of black chalk, stumping, wiping and erasing, heightened with touches of white and ocher gouache, on cream wove paper altered to a pale, golden tone

Inscriptions

Signed lower left, in charcoal: "ODILON REDON"

Dimensions

39.3 × 33.8 cm (15 1/2 × 13 5/16 in.)

Credit Line

Through prior bequest of Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson

Reference Number

1989.473

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