
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00004311Head Wearing a Phrygian Cap, on a Salver
by Odilon Redon
Inscriptions
Signed lower right, in black crayon (pastel): "ODILON REDON"
Provenance
Ambroise Vollard (1867-1939), Paris. Henri Petiet (1894-1980), Paris, 1940 [according to Wildenstein 1992]; sold to the Art Institute, 1950.
Exhibition history
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. Paris, Musée de l'Orangerie, "Odilon Redon," October 1956-January 1957, cat. 18, as La coupe. The Hague, Gemeentemuseum, "Odilon Redon," May 3-June 23, 1957, cat. 5, as La coupe. Gifu, Japan, The Museum of Fine Arts, "Odilon Redon-Le souci de l'absolu (Search for the Absolute)," October 8, 2002-December 8, 2002, cat. 52; traveled to Shimane, Japan, Shimane Art Museum, August 2, 2002-September 23, 2002.
Publications
Klaus Berger, translated by Michael Bullock, Odilon Redon: Fantasy and Colour (New York, 1965), p. 224, no. 580. Harold Joachim and Sandra Haller Olsen, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century (Chicago, 1979) p. 79, no. 4D10. Alec Wildenstein, Odilon Redon: Catalogue Raisonné de l’Oeuvre Peint et Dessiné 2 (Paris, 1994), p. 207, no. 1145 (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
- 1881
- Medium
- Charcoal with black chalk, stumping, scraping and erasing, on pale pink wove paper with red/pink and blue fibers, discolored to buff
- Dimensions
- 48.4 × 36.3 cm (19 1/16 × 14 5/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- charcoal
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- David Adler Collection
- Accession no.
- 1950.1416
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