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Property from an Historic British Collection

Odilon Redon

Portrait présumé de la Princesse de Cystria

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May 4, 02:00 PM GMT

Estimate

10,000 - 15,000 GBP

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Property from an Historic British Collection

Odilon Redon

1840 - 1916

Portrait présumé de la Princesse de Cystria


signed ODILON REDON and dated 1904- (lower right)

sanguine, black chalk and white chalk on paper

image: 34.9 by 33.1cm., 13¾ by 13in.

Framed: 54.7 by 51.2cm., 21½ by 20⅛in.

Executed in 1904.

Sale: Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 20th February 1948, lot 19
(Possibly) Sale: Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 11th March 1949, lot 183
Private Collection (sold: Sotheby's, London, 26th March 1980, lot 183)
Purchased at the above sale by the present owner
London, JPL Fine Arts, Impressionist and Modern Drawings and Watercolours, 1859-1962, 1980, no. 8, illustrated in the catalogue
André Mellerio, 'Odilon Redon' in Gazette de Beaux-Arts, 1920, p. 152
André Mellerio, Odilon Redon, peintre, dessinateur et graveur, Paris, 1923, p. 136
Charles Fegdal, Odilon Redon, Paris, 1929, p. 52
Odilon Redon (exhibition catalogue), Paris, Orangerie des Tuileries, 1956-7, mentioned as a reference for nos. 185 & 193
Klaus Berger, Odilon Redon, Phantasie und Farbe, Cologne, 1964, no. 760
Alec Wildenstein, Odilon Redon, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint et dessiné, Portraits et figures, vol. I, Paris, 1992, no. 89, illustrated p. 47