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    The Beacon
    Odilon Redon. The Beacon, 1883, reworked c. 1893. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00002759

    The Beacon

    by Odilon Redon

    View at the Art Institute of Chicago

    Inscriptions

    Signed lower right, in black chalk: "ODILON REDON,"

    Provenance

    John H. Winterbotham, Chicago, by 1928 [Chicago 1928]; given by Theodora Winterbotham Brown and Rue Winterbotham Shaw to the Art Institute, 1973.

    Exhibition history

    Paris, Durand-Ruel, 1899, cat. 77, as La Chaîne. Paris, "Odilon Redon," 1923, cat. 91. New York, "Odilon Redon," 1928, cat. 32 Chicago, "Odilon Redon," 1928-1929, cat. 24. The Arts Club of Chicago, "Then and Now," 1958. The Art Institute of Chicago, May 1, 1988-December 15, 1989. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Odilon Redon: Prince of Dreams 1840-1916," June 9-September 18, 1994, cat. 116, cat. by Douglas Druick et al; also traveled to the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, October 20-January 15, 1995; and the Royal Academy of Arts, London, February 16-May 21, 1995. New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Art Institute of Chicago, "Cézanne to Picasso: Ambroise Vollard, Patron of the Avant-Garde," 2006-2007; shown at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, September 14, 2006-January 7, 2007, and The Art Institute of Chicago, February 17-May 13, 2007. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Strange Realities: The Symbolist Imagination", October 4, 2025 - January 5, 2026.

    Publications

    E. Bernard, "Odilon Redon," L’Occident (May 1904), p. 224. "List of Important Redons in the United States," Parnassus, E. Bernard, "Odilon Redon," L’Occident (May 1904), p. 224. "List of Important Redons in the United States," Parnassus, III (April 1931), p. 37. John Rewald, "Odilon Redon et Emile Bernard," Gazette des Beaux Arts (November 1956), p. 103. Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century (Chicago, 1979), no. 4E8. J. Coignard, "Odilon Redon, prince des mystérieux rêves," Beaux-Arts Magazine (December 1994), p. 96 (ill.). J. Barnes, "Odilon Redon," Modern Painters, 7 (Winter 1994), p. 18 (ill.). Alec Wildenstein, Odilon Redon, Catalogue Raisonné de lOeuvre Peint et Dessiné 2 (Paris, 1994), pp. 156-157, no. 1059 (ill.). Le Symbolisme, Editions Flammarion, October 2005, p. 37.

    Open-access museum data

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    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Odilon Redon / French, 1840-1916
    Date
    1883, reworked c. 1893
    Medium
    Pastel, with various charcoals and touches of black chalk, stumping and erasing, on pale-pink wove paper with red fibers altered to a golden tone, laid down on cardboard
    Dimensions
    51.5 × 37.2 cm (20 5/16 × 14 11/16 in.)
    Type
    Drawing
    Classification
    pastel
    Place
    France
    Department
    Prints and Drawings
    Credit line
    Gift of Mrs. Theodora W. Brown and Mrs. Rue W. Shaw in memory of Anne R. Winterbotham
    Accession no.
    1973.513

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