
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00004317Vision
by Odilon Redon
Inscriptions
Signed "Odilon Redon"
Provenance
Ambroise Vollard (1867-1939), Paris [according to Wildenstein 1992]. Henri Petiet (1894-1980), 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. 16. Lugano, Switzerland, Museo Cantonale d'Arte, "Odilon Redon, La Nature de l'Invisible," September 7-November 17, 1996, cat. 27. Chicago, Smart Museum of Art, "The Tragic Muse: Art and Emotion, 1700-1900", February 10 - June 5, 2011, cat 30, fig, 22, pp. 31, 33, cat. by Anne Leonard, et. al.
Publications
Klaus Berger, Odilon Redon: Fantasy and Colour (New York, 1965), no. 706. Harold Joachim, French Drawing and Sketchbooks of the 19th Century (Chicago, 1979), pp. 78-79, no.4D9. Alec Wildenstein, Odilon Redon: Catalogue Raisonné de l’Oeuvre Peint et Dessiné 2 (Paris, 1994), p. 158, no. 1062 (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
- 1895/97
- Medium
- Black pastel, with charcoal and black chalk, stumping, scraping and erasing, on ivory wove paper with blue fibers (discolored to cream)
- Dimensions
- 52.6 × 37.7 cm (20 3/4 × 14 7/8 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- charcoal
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- David Adler Collection
- Accession no.
- 1950.1426
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