Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00004314Tree
by Odilon Redon
Inscriptions
Signed lower right, in black ink: "ODILON REDON"
Provenance
Ambroise Vollard (1867-1939), Paris [according to Joachim 1979]. 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. Tokyo, Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum, "The Flora of Odilon Redon: Botanist or Interior Decorator?", February 8 - May 20, 2018.
Publications
Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Skecthbooks of the 19th Century (Chicago, 1979), p. 78, no. 4D7. Douglas Druick, et.al., Odilon Redon: Prince of Dreams, 1840-1916 (Chicago, 1994), p. 360, fig. 12. Alec Wildenstein, Odilon: Catalogue raisonne de l'oeuvre peint et dessine 3 (Paris, 1996), p. 195, no. 1667 (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. 1875
- Medium
- Black charcoal with touches of brown charcoal, stumping, scraping and erasing, on ivory wove paper, discolored to cream
- Dimensions
- 49.3 × 38.2 cm (19 7/16 × 15 1/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- charcoal
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- David Adler Collection
- Accession no.
- 1950.1420
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