1929.54: Allegorical Figure (The Giant)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1929.54

People

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

Title

Allegorical Figure (The Giant)

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

19th-20th century

Culture

French

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/298757

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Graphite on cream wove paper, darkened

Dimensions

24.4 x 28 cm (9 5/8 x 11 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Philip Hofer

Accession Year

1929

Object Number

1929.54

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), no. 719, fig. 385
• Sven Sandström, Le Monde Imaginaire d'Odilon Redon (London, England, 1955), pp. 37-38, repr. p. 37, fig. 27
• Visionaries and Dreamers, exh. cat., Corcoran Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C, 1956), p. 10, no. 62
• Klaus Berger, Odilon Redon: Fantasy and Colour, McGraw-Hill Book Company (New York, Toronto, London, 1965), p. 235, no. 729
• Sarah Whitfield, The Academic Tradition: An Exhibition of Nineteenth-century French Drawings, exh. cat., Indiana University Art Museum (Bloomington, IN, 1968), no. 84, repr.
• Odilon Redon et les Problèmes de L'imagination dans la Peinture (I), Bijutsushi (March 1972), vol. 21, no. 4, pp. 119-142 + 162-63
• Eric M. Zafran, Master Drawings from Titian to Picasso: The Curtis O. Baer Collection, exh. cat., High Museum of Art (Atlanta, GA, 1985), p. 146, cat. no. 85, repr.
• Alec Wildenstein, Odilon Redon: Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint et dessiné, Wildenstein Institute (Paris, 1992-1998), vol. 1, p. 231, no . 587, repr.
• Stephen F. Eisenman, The Temptation of Saint Redon: Biography, Ideology, and Study in the Noirs of Odilon Redon, University of Chicago Press (Chicago, 1992), pp. 118 + 130 + 132, repr. p. 132
• Barbara Larson, "Odilon Redon: Science and Fantasy in the Noirs" (1996), pp. 43 - 44 + 372, repr. p. 372
• Barbara Larson, The Dark Side of Nature: Science, Society, and the Fantastic in the Work of Odilon Redon, Pennsylvania State University Press (University Park, PA, 2005), p. 62, fig. 52

Exhibition History

• The Academic Tradition: An Exhibition of Nineteenth-Century French Drawings arranged by the Indiana University Art Museum, Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, 06/19/1968 - 08/11/1968
• Flowers of Evil: Symbolist Drawings, 1870–1910, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 05/21/2016 - 08/14/2016

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