
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00002429Landscape
by Odilon Redon
Inscriptions
Signed and dated lower left, in charcoal: "od. Redon/ 68"
Provenance
The artist’s mother, Camille Redon, Bordeaux [according to a letter from Ari Redon to John Rewald dated February 3, 1967]; the artist's brother, Ernest Redon (1843-c. 1921), Bordeaux [according to Chicago 1994]. Gabriel Frizeau (1870-1938), Bordeaux, 1907 [according to Chicago 1994]. Stephen Higgins, Paris, c. 1964 [according to Wildenstein 1992-1998]. Sold by E. V. Thaw and Company, New York, to the Art Institute, 1966.
Exhibition history
Bordeaux, Société des amis des arts de Bordeaux, March 21, 1868, cat. 519. Paris, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, "Odilon Redon," May 14-July 14, 1963, cat. 38. Paris, Grand Palais, "80 Anniversaire du Premier Salon des Artistes Indépendants," 1964. Neuss, Germany, Clemens-Sels Museum, March 3-May 1965. Paris, Musée du Louvre, "Dessins français de l’Art Institute de Chicago de Watteau à Picasso," October 15, 1976-January 17, 1977, n.p., cat. 64 (ill.). Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Städtische Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut, "Französische Zeichnungen aus dem Art Institute of Chicago," February 10-April 10, 1977, pp. 136-137, cat. 65 (ill.). The Art Institute of Chicago, "Great Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago: The Harold Joachim Years 1958-1983," July 24-September 30, 1985, pp. 152-153, cat. 69 (ill.), cat. by Martha Tedeschi. The Art Institute of Chicago, May 1, 1988-July 24, 1989. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Odilon Redon, The Prince of Dreams 1840-1916," July 2-September 18, 1994, cat. 18, cat. by Douglas Druick et al.; also traveled to Amsterdam, the Van Gogh Museum, October 20, 1994-January 15, 1995; and London, the Royal Academy of Arts, February 16–May 21, 1995. Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, "Odilon Redon," January 28 - April 29, 2007, p. 141, cat. 9, cat. by Margret Stuffmann and Max Hollein.
Publications
Ari Redon, Lettres de Gauguin, Gide, Huysmans, Jammes, Mallarmé, Verhaeren ... à Odilon Redon (Paris, 1960), pp. 52-53. Roseline Bacou, "Chex Bernheim-Jeune, Odilon Redon est toujours à découvir," Arts (May 22-28, 1963). Jean François Moueix, Un amateur d’art éclairé à Bordeaux: Gabriel Frizeau (Bordeaux, 1969), p. 181. "The Artist looks at the landscape," The Art Institute of Chicago Bulletin, 67 (1973), (ill.). Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the 19th Century (Chicago, 1979), no. 4C10. Robert Coustet, L’Univers d’Odilon Redon (Paris, 1984), p. 10 (ill.). Martha Tedeschi, Great Drawings from the Art Institute of Chicago: the Harold Joachim Years, 1958-1983 (Chicago and New York, 1985), no. 69 (ill.). Rick Brettell, French Salon Artists 1800-1900 (New York, 1987), pp. 88 and 119 (ill.). Giuseppina Dal Canton, "Odilon Redon fra realtà e immaginazione: disegni per opere pittoriche e grafiche al Cabinet des Dessins del Louvre," Antichità Viva (1989), no. 5-6, p. 28 (ill.). Thea Jirat-Wasiutynski, "Tonal Drawing and the Use of Charcoal in 19th Century France," Drawings, XI (March-April 1990), pp. 121 and 122 (ill.). Thea Jirat-Wasiutynski, "The Charcoal Drawings of Odilon Redon," Drawings: Masters and Methods. Raphael to Redon (New York and London, 1992), p. 148 (ill.). Alec Wildenstein, Odilon Redon, Catalogue Raisonné de l'Oeuvre Peint et Dessiné 1 (Paris, 1992), p. 241, no. 611 (ill.).
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Odilon Redon / French, 1840-1916
- Date
- 1868
- Medium
- Various charcoals, with black chalk and black Conté crayon, wiping, stumping and erasing on cream wove paper altered to a golden tone
- Dimensions
- 53.6 × 75.5 cm (21 1/8 × 29 3/4 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- charcoal
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Ada Turnbull Hertle Endowment
- Accession no.
- 1966.349
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