Primitive Man

Paris, "Fusains d’Odilon Redon," April-May 1881. Brussels, Les Vingt, February 1886, cat. 2. Paris, Huitième Exposition de Peinture, 15 May-15 June 1886, cat. 126. New York, The Frick Collection, "From Pontormo to Seurat: Drawings Recently Acquired by The Art Institute of Chicago," April 23-July 7, 1991, n.p., cat. 48; traveled to The Art Institute of Chicago, September 10, 1991-January 5, 1992. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Odilon Redon: Prince of Dreams," 9 June –18 September 1994, cat. 32, cat. by Douglas Druick, et. al.; traveled to the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, 20 October 1994-15 January 1995, and the Royal Academy of Arts, London, 16 February-21 May 1995. Paris, Musée du Louvre, "Le Peinture Comme Crime," 15 October 2001-14 January 2002, cat. 125. Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, "Odilon Redon," January 28 - April 29, 2007, p. 149, cat. 18, cat. by Margret Stuffmann and Max Hollein. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Strange Realities: The Symbolist Imagination", October 4, 2025 - January 5, 2026.

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