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CC0 Public Domain Designation

Prints and Drawings

c. 1875

Odilon Redon
French, 1840-1916

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Odilon Redon
Title: Tree
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.: 1875
Medium: Black charcoal with touches of brown charcoal, stumping, scraping and erasing, on ivory wove paper, discolored to cream
Inscriptions: Signed lower right, in black ink: "ODILON REDON"
Dimensions: 49.3 × 38.2 cm (19 7/16 × 15 1/16 in.)
Credit Line: David Adler Collection
Reference Number: 1950.1420
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Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Skecthbooks of the 19th Century (Chicago, 1979), p. 78, no. 4D7.
Douglas Druick, et.al., Odilon Redon: Prince of Dreams, 1840-1916 (Chicago, 1994), p. 360, fig. 12.
Alec Wildenstein, Odilon: Catalogue raisonne de l’oeuvre peint et dessine 3 (Paris, 1996), p. 195, no. 1667 (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.
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 Joachim 1979]. Henri Petiet (1894-1980), Paris, by March 1940 [according to Wildenstein 1992]; sold to the Art Institute, 1950.

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