- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 1943.905
- People
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Odilon Redon, French (Bordeaux, France 1840 - 1916 Paris, France)
- Title
- Head of a Young Woman
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- 19th-20th century
- Culture
- French
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/297207
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Pastel on gray-prepared paper
- Dimensions
- 52.6 x 37.7 cm (20 11/16 x 14 13/16 in.)
frame: 61.6 × 48.9 cm (24 1/4 × 19 1/4 in.)
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
- Accession Year
- 1943
- Object Number
- 1943.905
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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- Publication History
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Klaus Berger, Odilon Redon: Fantasy and Colour, McGraw-Hill Book Company (New York, Toronto, London, 1965), cat. no. 407
Roseline Bacou, Odilon Redon Pastels, George Braziller, Inc. (New York, 1987), cat. no. 44, repr.
Alec Wildenstein, Odilon Redon: Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint et dessiné, Wildenstein Institute (Paris, 1992-1998), vol. 1, p. 129, cat. no 308, repr.
Edward Saywell, "Guide to Drawing Terms and Techniques", Harvard University Art Museums Bulletin, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1998), vol. VI, no. 2, pp. 30-39, p. 35 under "Pastel"
Greg Stone, Artful Business: 50 Lessons from Creative Geniuses (Boston, 2016), p. 114, ill. (color)
Colleen Walsh, Drawing Power: Harvard Art Museums exhibit a showcase for masterworks in progress, Harvard Gazette ([online], May 19, 2016), http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2016/05/drawing-power/, accessed May 23, 2016
Carey Dunne, Flowers of Evil and the Macabre Literary Imagination of Symbolism, Hyperalleric (July 4, 2016), [e-journal], http://hyperallergic.com/305877/flowers-of-evil-and-the-macabre-literary-imagination-of-symbolism/, accessed January 9, 2017
Franklin Einspruch, Fuse Visual Art Review: A Pair of Drawing Shows at the Harvard Art Museums, The Arts Fuse ([e-journal], June 9, 2016), repr., http://artsfuse.org/146319/fuse-visual-arts-review-a-pair-of-drawing-shows-at-the-harvard-art-museums/, accessed June 9, 2016
- Exhibition History
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