Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00006050Primitive Being
by Odilon Redon
Inscriptions
Signed recto, lower left, in black chalk: "ODILON REDON"
Provenance
Sold by the artist to Ambroise Vollard, Paris, Feb. 10, 1899. Sold, Hôtel Drouot Richelieu, Paris, June 12, 1992, lot. 105. Sold by Marc de Montebello, New York, to Richard and Mary L. Gray, Chicago, 1993 (promised to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2019); given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2022.
Exhibition history
Paris, Galerie de France, Exposition de fusains d'Odilon Redon, 1942. Art Institute of Chicago, Odilon Redon: Prince of Dreams, 1994, pp. 85–86, 437, cat. 37. Frankfurt, Schirn Kunsthalle, As in a Dream: Odilon Redon, 2007, pp. 148, 314, cat. 17. Art Institute of Chicago, Gray Collection: Seven Centuries of Art, Sept. 25, 2010–Jan. 2, 2011, cat. 63 (ill.). Art Institute of Chicago, Pure Drawing: Seven Centuries of Art from the Gray Collection, Jan. 25–Oct. 12, 2020; traveled to Berkeley, UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Aug. 4–Nov. 28, 2021.
Publications
Pierre du Colombier, "Les Expositions,” Les beaux-arts (May 10, 1942), pp.8–9. Alec Wildenstein Odilon Redon: Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint et dessiné, vol. 2 (Wildenstein Institute, 1994), p. 213, no. 1162.
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. 1876
- Medium
- Various charcoals and black chalk, with stumping, wiping, and erasing, fixed, on cream wove paper
- Dimensions
- 44.5 × 36.9 cm (17 9/16 × 14 9/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- drawings (visual works)
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Richard and Mary L. Gray
- Accession no.
- 2022.91
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