Primitive Man

CC0 Public Domain Designation

Prints and Drawings

1872

Odilon Redon
French, 1840-1916

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Odilon Redon
Title: Primitive Man
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.: 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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Amadée Pigeon, Le Courrier Républicain (15 May 1881), p. 3.
Amadée Pigeon, “Les Dessins de M. Odilon Redon,” La Gironde (1 June 1881).
Naudet, Journal de Bruxelles (14 February 1886).
Firmin Javel, l’Evénement (16 May 1886).
F. Vurgey, “Odilon Redon. Son Exposition au Salon des XX,” Nancy-Artiste (28 March 1886), p. 83.
Léo Rouanet, “La Huitième Exposition des Impressionistes,” La Passant (June 1886).
Jean Ajalbert, “Le Salon des Impressionistes,” La Revue Moderne (20 June 1886).
Lettres à Odilon Redon (Paris, 1960), p. 92.
D. Gamboni (Paris, 1989), p. 282.
Roseline Bacou, “La Décoration d’Odilon Redon pour le Château de Domecy,” Revue du Louvre (2 June 1992), p. 42.
Alec Wildenstein, Odilon Redon, catalogue raisonné de l’œuvre peint et dessiné 2 (Paris, 1994), p. 47, no. 836 (ill.).
Odilon Redon (Lugano, 1996), p. 31 (ill.).

Paris, “Fusains d’Odilon Redon,” April-May 1881.
Brussels, Les Vingt, February 1886, cat. 2.
Paris, Huitième Exposition de Peinture, 15 May-15 June 1886, cat. 126.
New York, The Frick Collection, “From Pontormo to Seurat: Drawings Recently Acquired by The Art Institute of Chicago,” April 23-July 7, 1991, n.p., cat. 48; traveled to The Art Institute of Chicago, September 10, 1991-January 5, 1992.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Odilon Redon: Prince of Dreams,” 9 June –18 September 1994, cat. 32, cat. by Douglas Druick, et. al.; traveled to the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, 20 October 1994-15 January 1995, and the Royal Academy of Arts, London, 16 February-21 May 1995.
Paris, Musée du Louvre, “Le Peinture Comme Crime,” 15 October 2001-14 January 2002, cat. 125.
Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, “Odilon Redon,” January 28 - April 29, 2007, p. 149, cat. 18, cat. by Margret Stuffmann and Max Hollein.

Sold to Baron Robert de Domecy, Sermizelles, France, May 1893 [Chicago 1994]; by descent in the Domecy family [Wildenstein 1994]. Sold, Drouot Montaigne, Paris, June 2, 1988, lot 3bis. Rolf Weinberg, Zurich and Waring Hopkins, Paris, 1988 [Chicago 1994]. Sold by Altman-Burke, New York, to the Art Institute, 1989.

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