2005.132: Tree and Stump

Identification and Creation

Object Number

2005.132

People

Odilon Redon, French (Bordeaux, France 1840 - 1916 Paris, France)

Title

Tree and Stump

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

c. 1880

Culture

French

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/19147

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Charcoal on light tan wove paper, discolored

Dimensions

36.8 x 31.6 cm (14 1/2 x 12 7/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: black crayon, l.c.: ODILON REDON
• inscription: verso, lower edge, graphite: 60B / 32 [rest of inscription obscured by paper adhered to edge]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Andre Mellerio [Redon scholar]; Count Petiet; Carstairs Gallery; The New Gallery; Richard B. Sisson [by 1958], New York City and Cuba, New York; bequest to Harvard University Art Museums, 2005

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Richard B. Sisson and through the generosity of Anthony and Celeste Meier

Accession Year

2005

Object Number

2005.132

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Odilon Redon, exh. cat., The New Gallery (New York, 1958), no. 18
• Collecting Privately, exh. cat., Bowdoin College Museum of Art (Brunswick, Maine, 1965), cat. no. 17

Exhibition History

• Odilon Redon, The New Gallery, New York, 11/11/1958 - 11/29/1958
• Collecting Privately, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, 07/02/1965 - 09/05/1965

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