Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00005707The Die, also called the Weight of Passions
by Odilon Redon
Inscriptions
Signed lower right, in graphite: "Odilon Redon"
Provenance
By descent to the artist’s son, Ari Redon. Ari Redon, to 1956 [Roseline Bacou]. Sold, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, December 16, 1981, lot 52. Cazou [letter from Jeffrey Gelfand of February 20, 1997 in curatorial file]. Private Collection [letter mentioned above]. Sold by Jeffrey Gelfand, New York, to the Art Institute, 1997.
Exhibition history
Musee de Winterthur, "Odilon Redon," June 9-July 13, 1919, cat. 54. Paris, Galeries Druet, "Odilon Redon," June 11-30, 1923, cat. 282. Paris, Orangerie des Tuileries, "Odilon Redon," October 1956-January 1957, pp. 12-13, cat. 21. Art Institute of Chicago, "Master Drawings Unveiled: 25 Years of Major Acquisitions," August 27, 2016–January 29, 2017, no cat.
Publications
Alec Wildenstein, Odilon Redon, Catalogue Raisonné de l’Oeuvre Peint et Dessiné 1 (Paris, 1992), p. 27, no. 689 (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
- 1878/82
- Medium
- Graphite with pen and black ink, heightened with white lead (discolored) on cream wove paper
- Dimensions
- 17.1 × 12.7 cm (6 3/4 × 5 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- graphite
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Margaret Day Blake Endowment
- Accession no.
- 1997.305
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