Strange Flower (Little Sister of the Poor)

Paris, Salle du Journal, "Le Gallois," "Deuxième Exposition des dessins de M. Odilon Redon," 1882.

Joris Karl Huysmans, "Le Salon Officiel de 1881," and "Appendice," L'Art Moderne (Paris, 1883), p. 299.

New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Art Institute of Chicago, "Cézanne to Picasso: Ambroise Vollard, Patron of the Avant-Garde," 2006-2007; shown at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, September 14, 2006-January 7, 2007, and The Art Institute of Chicago, February 17-May 13, 2007.

Barbara Larson, The Dark Side of Nature: Science, Society, and the Fantastic in the Work of Odilon Redon (University Park, Penn., 2005), pp. ix, 78, and 79, fig. 66.

Gifu, Japan, The Museum of Fine Arts, "Odilon Redon --Le souci de l'absolu (Search for the Absolute)," October 8, 2002-December 8, 2002, cat. 47; traveled to Shimane, Japan, Shimane Art Museum, August 2, 2002-September 23, 2002.

Roseline Bacou, Odilon Redon (Geneva, 1956), p. 70, note 3.

Palm Beach, Fla. Society of the Four Arts, "Odilon Redon," 1955, cat. 45.

New York, The Museum of Modern Art, "Redon, Drawings and Lithographs," 1952, cat. 7.

sold to the Art Institute, 1950.

Hugh Edwards, "Redon, Flaubert, Vollard," Bulletin of The Art Institute of Chicago, 36 (1942), p. 4 (ill.).

The Art Institute of Chicago, " Unpublished Drawings for the Temptation of St. Anthony by Odilon Redon, lent by Jean Goriany, New York," July 26, 1941-April 30, 1942.

Paris, Musée des Arts Decoratifs, "Odilon Redon, Exposition Rétrospective de son oeuvre," March 1926, cat. 235.

The Art Institute of Chicago, "Odilon Redon: Prince of Dreams," June 9-September 18, 1994, cat. 55, cat. by Douglas Druick et al; traveled to Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum, October 20, 1994-January 15, 1995; and London, the Royal Academy of Arts, February 16-May 21, 1995.

Alec Wildenstein, Odilon Redon: Catalogue Raisonné de l'Oeuvre Peint et Dessiné 2 (Paris, 1994), p. 232, no. 1183 (ill.).

Steven Frederick Eisenman, The Temptation of Saint Redon: Biography, Ideology, and Style in the Noirs of Odilon Redon (Chicago, 1992), p. 146, fig. 111.

Jean Vialla, Odilon Redon (Paris, 1988), p. 82 (ill.).

Diane Kelder, L'Heritage de L'Impressionisme (Paris, 1986), p. 121 (ill).

Harold Joachim and Sandra Haller Olsen, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century (Chicago, 1979), p. 79, 4D11.

Jean Selz, Odilon Redon, translated by Eileen Hennessy (Naefels, 1978), p. 35 (ill.).

Igor Gazdik, Odilon Redon (Bratislava, 1971), no. 13 (ill.).

Klaus Berger, Odilon Redon, Fantasy and Colour, translated by Michael Bullock (New York, 1965 ), p. 224, no. 615.

The Art Institute of Chicago Quarterly, 55:5 (1961), (ill. on cover).

New York, The Museum of Modern Art, "Odilon Redon, Gustave Moreau, Rodolphe Bresdin," December 4, 1961-February 4, 1962, cat. 107; traveled to The Art Institute of Chicago, March 2-April 15, 1962.

Sold by the artist to Ambroise Vollard (1867-1939), Paris, December 30, 1897. Henri Petiet (1894-1980), Paris, 1940