Lot 152
  • 152

Odilon Redon

Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
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Description

  • Odilon Redon
  • Jeune fille
  • Signed Od. R. (lower right)
  • Pencil on paper
  • 7 1/2 by 4 5/8 in.
  • 19 by 11.7 cm

Provenance

Arï Redon, Paris (the artist's son, until circa 1947)
John Rewald, New York
Acquired from the above in April 1953

Exhibited

Palm Beach, The Society of the Four Arts, Odilon Redon, 1840-1916, 1955, no. 34

Literature

John Rewald, "Odilon Redon et Émile Bernard," in Gazette des beaux-arts, November 1956, illustrated p. 122
Alec Wildenstein, Odilon Redon. Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint et dessiné. Portraits et figures, vol. I, Paris, 1994, no. 77, illustrated p. 43

Condition

The work is in very good condtion. Executed on cream colored wove paper. Work is t-hinged to a mat at two places on the verso of the sheet. The sheet is slightly time darkened with mat staining visible at extreme edges. At top verso there are two stains from old hinges. Some minor pindot and nailhead repairs to extreme perimeter of the sheet in no way interfere with the image itself.
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