
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00004313Prophète
by Odilon Redon
Inscriptions
Signed: "Odilon Redon"
Provenance
Ambroise Vollard (1867-1939), Paris [stock number 3721 according to Wildenstein 1992]. 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. New York, Museum of Modern Art, "Odilon Redon, Drawings and Lithographs," February 13-April 20, 1952, cat. 9. Palm Beach, Fla., Society of the Four Arts, "Odilon Redon," March 18-April 3, 1955, cat. 38. New York, Museum of Modern Art, "Odilon Redon, Gustave Moreau, Rodolphe Bresdin," December 4, 1961-February 4, 1962, cat. 110, as Shrouded Woman; traveled to The Art Institute of Chicago, March 2-April 15, 1962. Lugano, Switzerland, Museo Cantonale d'Arte, "Odilon Redon, La Nature de l'Invisibile," September 7-November 17, 1996, cat. 94, cat. by Manuela Kahn-Rossi et. al. Tokyo, Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum, "The Flora of Odilon Redon: Botanist or Interior Decorator?", February 8 - May 20, 2018.
Publications
Klaus Berger, translated by Michael Bullock, Odilon Redon: Fantasy and Colour (New York, 1965), p. 229, no. 635. Harold Joachim and Sandra Haller Olsen, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century (Chicago, 1979) p. 80, no. 4E2. Alec Wildenstein, Odilon Redon: Catalogue Raisonné de l’Oeuvre Peint et Dessiné I (Paris, 1992), p. 246, no. 627 (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
- c. 1885
- Medium
- Black and brown charcoal with black chalk, stumping, scraping and erasing, on ivory wove paper (discolored to cream)
- Dimensions
- 51.7 × 37.5 cm (20 3/8 × 14 13/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- charcoal
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- David Adler Collection
- Accession no.
- 1950.1418
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