Lot 655
  • 655

Odilon Redon

Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 EUR
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Description

  • Odilon Redon
  • Ève à la pomme dit aussi Femme de profil dans un coquillage
  • signed ODILON REDON (lower left)
  • pencil and watercolour on paper
  • 25,3 x 17,9 cm; 10 x 7 in.

Provenance

Maurice Loncle
Mrs. Cartier (her sale: Hôtel Drouot, Paris, November 22, 1977, lot 70)
Galerie Daniel Malingue, Paris
Galerie Alain Lesieutre, Paris
Sale: Hôtel Okura, Tokyo, June 19, 1990, lot 23
Sale: Hôtel Drouot, Paris, July 2, 1991, lot 310

Exhibited

Yamanashi, Musée départemental d'Art; Kamakura, Musée d'Art Moderne; Mié,  Musée départemental d'Art, Gustave Moreau et le symbolisme, 1984-85, no. 123, illustrated in the catalogue p. 156
Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Musée départemental du Prieuré, Le Chemin de Gauguin, Genèse et rayonnement, 1985-86, no. 298, illustrated in the catalogue p. 158

Literature

Alec Wildenstein, Odilon Redon, Catalogue raisonné de l'Œuvre Peint et Dessiné, vol. I, Portraits et figures, Paris, 1992, no. 298, illustrated p. 124

Condition

Executed on cream wove paper, affixed to a sheet of thin brown paper on the reverse along the extreme edges, which has been cut in cross in order to see the reverse of the sheet. The laid down paper is taped to the overmount along the upper edge. The sheet is slightly undulating and there is some minor light staining. Colours are fresh and bright. This work is in very good condition.
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