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    Museum collections / Art Institute of Chicago
    Faust and Mephistopheles
    Odilon Redon. Faust and Mephistopheles, 1880. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00005684

    Faust and Mephistopheles

    by Odilon Redon

    View at the Art Institute of Chicago

    Inscriptions

    Signed recto, lower right along right edge, in black chalk: "od REDON"; and (diagonally) lower right, in white pencil: "O • REDON"; inscribed verso, lower center, in graphite: "77; 49 x 58"

    Provenance

    Sold by the artist to Andries Bonger (1861–1936), July 9, 1894 [Chicago 1994]; by descent to his wife, Mme. Bonger (née Baroness Francoise van der Borch van Verwolde; 1887–1975), Almen, The Netherlands, until at least June 1959 [London 1959]. Sold by Peter H. Deitsch (1924-1970), New York, to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, November 14, 1962, [invoice]; given to the Art Institute, 1995.

    Exhibition history

    Paris, "Deuxième Exposition des dessins de M. Odilon Redon," Salle du Journal ‘Le Gaullois’, February 1882. Paris, Galeries Durand-Ruel, "Exposition Odilon Redon," March–April, 1894, cat. 23. The Hague, Haagsche Kunstring, "Odilon Redon," May–June 1894, cat. 11. Rotterdam, Kunstzaal Reckers, "Peintures, pastels, dessins et lithographies par Odilon Redon," May 1907, cat. 29. Amsterdam, Larensche Kunsthandel, "Odilon Redon," May 7–14, 1909, cat. 45. Cleveland Museum of Art, "Odilon Redon," November 29, 1951–January 20, 1952, cat. 29; traveled to The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, February 1–March 1, 1952, and Jacques Seligmann and Company, New York, October 22–November 10, 1951. Paris, Orangérie des Tuileries, "Odilon Redon," October 1956–January 1957, cat. 23. The Hague, Gemeentemuseum, "Odilon Redon," 1957, cat. 9. Berne, Kunsthalle, "Odilon Redon," 1958, cat. 26. London, Matthiesen Gallery, "Odilon Redon 1840–1916," May–June 1959, cat. 9. Cambridge, Mass., Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, December 9, 1967–March 29, 1968. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Odilon Redon: Prince of Dreams, 1840–1916," July 2–September 18, 1994, pp. 135, 140, and 141, figs. 13:6, 24, cat. 57; traveled to the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, October 20, 1994–January 15, 1995; and the Royal Academy of Arts, London, February 16–May 21, 1995. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawn to Form: Modern Drawings," June 11–September 7, 1999, checklist 46. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection," June 3–July 30, 2006, p. 112, cat. 75 (ill.). The Art Institute of Chicago, "Strange Realities: The Symbolist Imagination", October 4, 2025 - January 5, 2026.

    Publications

    Guolibet, “Exposition Odilon Redon,” Le Tintamarre (April 15, 1894). J. Cohen Gosschalk, “Odilon Redon,” Zeitschrift für Bildende Kunst (December 1910), p. 67, fig. 8. Sven Sandström, Le monde imaginaire d'Odilon Redon; étude iconologique, trans. by Denise Naert (Lund, 1955), pp. 95–96, 179, and 220, fig. 73. Roseline Bacou, Odilon Redon (Geneva, 1956), I: pp. 58, 71, and 108; II: p. 48, no. 40 (ill.). Roseline Bacou, “The Bonger Collection at Amen, Holland,” Apollo 80 (November 1964), p. 401. Klaus Berger, Odilon Redon: Fantasy and Colour, trans. by Michael Bullock (New York, 1965), p. 225, no. 587. Dario Gamboni, La plume et le pinceau: Odilon Redon et la litérature (Paris, 1989), fig. 35. Alec Wildenstein, Odilon Redon, Catalogue raisonné de l’oeuvre peint et dessiné 2 (Paris, 1994), p. 167, no. 1078 (ill.). Fred Leeman and Kevin Sharp, “Vroege verzamelaars van Redon in Nederland,” Jong Holland 10:3 (1994), p. 25, fig. 16.

    Open-access museum data

    This record comes from the open-access collection data that the Art Institute of Chicago publishes for unrestricted use (Creative Commons Zero). Art Trackers shows a selection of the museum's published fields. The Art Institute of Chicago is not an Art Trackers client and has not reviewed or endorsed this page; the museum's own website is the authoritative record.

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    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Odilon Redon / French, 1840-1916
    Date
    1880
    Medium
    Various charcoals, with wiping, stumping, erasing, and incising, on cream wove paper altered to a golden tone
    Dimensions
    40 × 32 cm (15 3/4 × 12 5/8 in.)
    Type
    Drawing
    Classification
    charcoal
    Place
    France
    Department
    Prints and Drawings
    Credit line
    Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
    Accession no.
    1995.380

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