Lot 147
  • 147

Odilon Redon

Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 USD
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Description

  • Odilon Redon
  • Feuille d'étude: branches fleuries, papillon et décoration
  • Signed Odilon Redon (lower left); signed Od. R. (lower right); dedicated à Madame Sabouraud en amitié respectueuse. Odilon Redon (upper left)
  • Watercolor on paper
  • 9 3/4 by 6 3/4 in.
  • 24.8 by 17.1 cm

Provenance

Mme. Raymond Jacques Sabouraud, Paris (acquired from the artist)
Thierry Brunhoff, Paris (by descent from the above)
P&D Colnaghi & Co. Ltd., London
Acquired from the above on October 17, 1978

Literature

Alec Wildenstein, Odilon Redon. Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint et dessiné. Fleurs et paysages, vol. III, Paris, 1996, no. 1365, illustrated p. 23

Condition

Executed on cream wove paper t-hinged to a mount at two places on the top edge of the verso. The sheet is a little time-darkened and mat-stained with a few faint surface stains scattered particularly at the upper left and center left. Minor losses are present at the lower left and ower right corners and remnants of tape from a previous mounting trace the perimeter of the verso. There si a .25-inch tear along the center righ edge. Overall the work is in good condition.
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