Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00005690False Glory
by Odilon Redon
Inscriptions
Signed lower left, black chalk: "ODILON REDON"
Provenance
Baron Robert de Domecy, Sermizelles, France [Chicago 1994]. Private collection, to at least 1995 [Chicago 1994]. Sold by Michael Altman, New York, to the Art Institute, 1996.
Exhibition history
The Art Institute of Chicago, "Odilon Redon: Prince of Dreams," June 9-September 18, 1994, cat. 90, cat. by Douglas Druick, et. al.; also 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. Paris, Musée du Louvre, "Le Peinture Comme Crime," October 15, 2001-January 14, 2002, cat. 125. Art Institute of Chicago, "Master Drawings Unveiled: 25 Years of Major Acquisitions," August 27, 2016–January 29, 2017, no cat.
Publications
Alec Wildenstein, Odilon: Catalogue raisonne de l'oeuvre peint et dessine 2 (Wildenstein, 1994), p. 208, no. 1150 (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. 1885
- Medium
- Various charcoals, with incising, stumping, wiping, erasing, and subtractive brushwork, on pale-pink wove paper altered to a pale, golden tone
- Dimensions
- 49.9 × 33.1 cm (19 11/16 × 13 1/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- charcoal
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Through prior acquisitions of the David Adler Memorial Fund
- Accession no.
- 1996.46
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