Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00004312Sketch of Trees
by Odilon Redon
Inscriptions
Signed lower right, in black crayon: "Od.R."
Provenance
Ambroise Vollard (1867-1939). Henri Petiet (1894-1980), Paris, by March 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.
Publications
Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the 19th Century (Chicago, 1979), no. 4E4. Alec Wildenstein, Odilon: Catalogue raisonne de l'oeuvre peint et dessine3 (Paris, 1996), p. 200, no. 1675 (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
- 1890/99
- Medium
- Charcoal and black chalk with black pastel, stumping, scraping and erasing, and traces of brown charcoal(?), on ivory wove paper, discolored to cream
- Dimensions
- 31.8 × 21.5 cm (12 9/16 × 8 1/2 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- charcoal
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- David Adler Collection
- Accession no.
- 1950.1417
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