Lot 348
  • 348

Odilon Redon

Estimate
18,000 - 25,000 USD
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Description

  • Odilon Redon
  • L’Hémisphère
  • Signed Odilon Redon (lower right)
  • Pencil, pen and ink, gouache and black crayon on paper
  • 5 by 6 1/2 in.
  • 12.7 by 16.5 cm

Provenance

Coleman Art Gallery, Philadelphia
Mr. & Mrs. Bernard M. Douglas, New Jersey
A gift from the above in 1958

Exhibited

(Possibly) Winterthur, Switzerland, Kunstmuseum, Ausstellung Odilon Redon, 1840-1916, 1919, no. 56
The Hague, Pulchri Studio, Tentoonstelling van Hollandsche en Fransche Kunst uit de Verzameling Kunsthandel Huinck, Utrecht, 1927, no. 57

Literature

Alec Wildenstein, Odilon Redon: Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint et dessiné, mythes et légendes, vol. II, Paris, 1994, no. 961, illustrated p. 106

Condition

Executed on buff colored wove paper hinged to a mount at two places on verso. Edges are cut. Faint mat stain along extreme left and right edges and sheet is slightly time darkened overall. Small, hard crease at upper right corner. Evidence of a prior mounting at top edge on verso. Small studio stain on verso visible on recto near upper left corner, otherwise find. This work is in very good condition.
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