Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00004316Le Nebuleuse
by Odilon Redon
Inscriptions
Signed "Odilon Redon"
Provenance
Ambroise Vollard (1867-1939), Paris [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. Lugano, Switzerland, Museo Cantonale d'Arte, "Odilon Redon, La Nature de l'Invisible," September 7-November 17, 1996, cat. 27.
Publications
Klaus Berger, Odilon Redon: Fantasy and Colour (New York, 1965), p. 233, no. 706 (ill.). Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the 19th Century (Chicago, 1979), p. 78, no. 4D6. Alec Wildenstein, Odilon Redon: Catalogue Raisonné de l’Oeuvre Peint et Dessiné 2 (Paris, 1994), p. 157, no. 1061.
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
- 1875/80
- Medium
- Two types of charcoal with stumping, scraping, erasing and burnishing, on ivory wove paper (discolored to cream)
- Dimensions
- 52.6 × 37.5 cm (20 3/4 × 14 13/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- charcoal
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- David Adler Collection
- Accession no.
- 1950.1424
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