The Little Abbot Reading the Ramayana

Paris, Galeries Durand-Ruel, "Exposition Odilon Redon," March-April 1894, cat. 27. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Ehibition of 19 charcoals owned by Jean Goriany [or Henri Petiet] made for Flaubert's The Temptation of Saint Anthony," August 1941. New York, The Museum of Modern Art, "Redon, Drawing, and Lithographs," 1952, cat. 13. Palm Beach, Fla., Society of the Four Arts, "Odilon Redon," 1955, cat. 42. Rotterdam, Museum Boymans, "French Drawings from American Collections: Clouet to Matisse," 1958 - 1959, cat. 179; traveled to Paris, Musée de l'Orangerie; and New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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