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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2005.131
People
Odilon Redon, French (Bordeaux, France 1840 - 1916 Paris, France)
Title
Chimera
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1880-1895
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/19608

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Charcoal on buff wove paper
Dimensions
50.9 x 37.8 cm (20 1/16 x 14 7/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: charcoal, lower left: ODILON REDON
  • gallery label: back of frame, printed and typed: E.V. THAW & CO. / 50 EAST 78TH STREET NEW YORK / Odilon Redon / "La Chimere" / charcoal drawing / 19 7/8 x 14 3/4"
  • gallery label: back of frame, printed and inscribed: THE MATTHIESEN GALLERY / 142 NEW BOND STREET, LONDON, W.1 / ODILON REDON EXHIBITION / MAY/JUNE 1959 / TITLE: La Chimere / CAT. NO.: 13 / LENDER: Private Collection, London
  • inscription: verso, upper left corner, graphite: 2814
  • inscription: verso, upper left corner, graphite: 2 / 505 x 375
  • inscription: verso, lower right corner, graphite: 5 [or S?] 7 x 74
  • inscription: verso, lower left corner, graphite: n=45-

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Claude-Emile Shuffenecker, c. 1892; Ambroise Vollard, Paris; Stephen Higgins, Paris, c. 1958; Jean-Pierre Durand, Geneva; Mme Edouard Jonas, Paris; E.V. Thaw & Co., New York; Richard B. Sisson, New York; 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
2005.131
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Société de peintres-graveurs français: Quatrième Exposition, exh. cat., Galeries Durand-Ruel (Paris, 1892), checklist no. 281
  • Exposition Odilon Redon, auct. cat., Galeries Durand-Ruel (Paris, 1894), no. 38
  • Stephen Higgins, Odilon Redon: Magicien du noir et blanc, exh. cat. (Paris, 1958), cat. no. 14, repr.
  • Odilon Redon 1840-1916: A Loan Exhibition of Paintings, Pastels and Drawings in Aid of Corneal Graft and Eye Bank Research, exh. cat., Matthiesen Gallery (London, 1959), no. 13, repr.
  • Arï Redon, ed., Lettres de Gauguin, Gide, Huysmans, Jammes, Mallarmé, Verhaeren ... à Odilon Redon, Librairie José Corti (Paris, 1960), p. 201
  • 19th and 20th Century Master Drawings, auct. cat. (New York, 1964), no. 15, repr.
  • Klaus Berger, Odilon Redon: Phantasie und Farbe, M. DuMont Schauberg (Cologne, Germany, 1964)
  • Collecting Privately, exh. cat., Bowdoin College Museum of Art (Brunswick, Maine, 1965), cat. no. 18, fig. 4
  • Klaus Berger, Odilon Redon: Fantasy and Colour, McGraw-Hill Book Company (New York, Toronto, London, 1965), no. 647
  • Alec Wildenstein, Odilon Redon: Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint et dessiné, Wildenstein Institute (Paris, 1992-1998), vol. 2, no. 1115, repr.
  • Harvard University Art Museums, Harvard University Art Museums Annual Report 2005-2006 (Cambridge, MA, 2007), p. 26, repr.
  • Ewa Lajer-Burcharth and Elizabeth M. Rudy, ed., Drawing: The Invention of a Modern Medium, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2017), pp. 122, 283, repr. p. 123 as fig. 3

Exhibition History

  • Société de peintres-graveurs français: Quatrième Exposition, Galeries Durand-Ruel, Paris, 04/15/1892 - 04/30/1892
  • Exposition Odilon Redon, Galeries Durand-Ruel, Paris, 03/01/1894 - 04/30/1894
  • Odilon Redon: Magicien du noir et blanc, Stephen Higgins, Paris, 06/01/1958 - 09/15/1958
  • Odilon Redon 1840-1916: A Loan Exhibition of Paintings, Pastels and Drawings in Aid of Corneal Graft and Eye Bank Research, Matthiesen Gallery, London, 05/01/1959 - 06/30/1959
  • Art for the Collector, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, 08/23/1962 - 09/23/1962
  • 19th and 20th Century Master Drawings, E. V. Thaw & Co., New York, 09/29/1964 - 10/24/1964
  • Collecting Privately, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, 07/02/1965 - 09/05/1965
  • Drawing: The Invention of a Modern Medium, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/21/2017 - 05/07/2017

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