Lot 125
  • 125

Odilon Redon

Estimate
70,000 - 90,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Odilon Redon
  • ANÉMONES - FLEURS HUMAINES
  • Signed Odilon Redon (lower right)
  • Watercolor, brush and ink and crayon on paper
  • 10 by 7 in.
  • 25.4. by 17.8 cm

Provenance

Collection Armand Parent
César de Hauke, Paris
Jean-Pierre Durand, Geneva
Acquired from the above in 1971 

Exhibited

Paris, Pavillion de Marsen,1926
New York, De Hauke & Co. no. 38
Paris, Petit Palais, 1934, no. 119
Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1932
London, The Mattisen Gallery, 1959, no. 37

 

Literature

André Mellerio, "Trois peintures écrivains, Delacroix, Fromentin, Odilon Redon", La Nouvelle Revue, Paris, April 15, 1923, illustrated p. 162
Klaus Berger, Odilon Redon, Phantasie und Farbe, Cologne, 1964, no. 526
Alec Wildenstein, Odilon Redon, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint et dessiné, vol. II, Paris, 1994, no. 1188, illustrated p. 234

Condition

very good condition; not laid down; mat stains at edges; right edge reinforced; hinged to mat at top edge
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