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A graphite drawing depicting a woman in a rocky outcropping.

A graphite drawing showing a woman sitting on a flat rock. Her right leg is bent to the side of her body and the left leg hangs off the rock. She wears a knee-length white dress with a long white covering over her hair. Behind her, rocks extend upwards gradually rising towards the left corner of the piece. In the background, the sun emerges from behind the rocks as flocks of birds fly around it.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
2005.139
People
Odilon Redon, French (Bordeaux, France 1840 - 1916 Paris, France)
Title
Anchorite (Fantastic Scene)
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Scène fantastique
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1870-1875
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/19202

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Graphite on cream wove paper, darkened
Dimensions
32 x 24.5 cm (12 5/8 x 9 5/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: graphite, l.r.: ODILON REDON
  • gallery label: back of frame, printed and typed: ARTIST: Redon DATE: 1870-75 / TITLE: Anchorite STOCK: pur 54 / MEDIUM: pencil PRICE: pppp / SIZE: 8" x 8"
  • label: back of frame, printed and typed: REWALD / 52.4

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
John Rewald, New York (by 1952). [New Gallery, New York]. Richard B. Sisson, New York (by 1958); bequest to Fogg Art Museum, 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
2005.139
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Redon Drawings and Lithographs, Museum of Modern Art Bulletin (New York, Winter 1952), XIX, No. 2, checklist no. 1, p. 14, repr. p. 9
  • John Rewald, "Odilon Redon et Emile Bernard", Gazette des Beaux-Arts (November 1956), XLIX, p. 121, fig. 19
  • Odilon Redon, exh. cat., The New Gallery (New York, 1958), no. 16
  • Collecting Privately, exh. cat., Bowdoin College Museum of Art (Brunswick, Maine, 1965), cat. no. 16
  • Alec Wildenstein, Odilon Redon: Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint et dessiné, Wildenstein Institute (Paris, 1992-1998), vol. 1, no. 590, repr.

Exhibition History

  • Redon Drawings and Lithographs, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 02/14/1952 - 04/20/1952
  • 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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