Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00004512Hermit in Landscape
by Odilon Redon
Inscriptions
Signed lower left, diagonally, in black ink: "ODILON REDON"
Provenance
Possibly César de Hauke, France and New York, by 1928 [New York 1942]. Esther Slater Kerrigan, United States; sold, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, January 8, 1942, Slater Kerrigan sale, lot 13. Ray Slater Murphy [New York 1983]. Sold, Christie’s, New York, February 23, 1983, lot 59. Sold by Lutz Riester London, to the Art Institute, 1983.
Exhibition history
New York, César de Hauke, "Redon," November 1928, cat. 69. The Art Institute of Chicago, 4 September-19 October 1987. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Odilon Redon, Prince of Dreams 1840-1916," 9 June-28 September 1994, cat. 13, 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.
Publications
Alec Wildenstein, Odilon Redon, catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre peint et dessiné II (Paris, 1994), p. 234, no. 597. "Odilon Redon's early work: science and romantic naturalism in Bordeaux," Zeitschrift für kunstgeschichte, 2003. Barbara Larson, The Dark Side of Nature: Science, Society, and the Fantastic in the Work of Odilon Redon (University Park, Penn., 2005), pp. vii, 17, and 19, fig. 12. Alec Wildenstein, Odilon: Catalogue raisonne de l'oeuvre peint et dessine 1 (Paris, 1992), p. 234 , no. 597 (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. 1866
- Medium
- Pen and black ink on tan card
- Dimensions
- 12 × 17.2 cm (4 3/4 × 6 13/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- pen and ink drawings
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Margaret Day Blake Endowment
- Accession no.
- 1983.779
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