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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1994.73
People
Odilon Redon, French (Bordeaux, France 1840 - 1916 Paris, France)
Title
Self-Portrait
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1880-c. 1885
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/312384

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black conté crayon on white laid paper
Dimensions
28 x 23.7 cm (11 x 9 5/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: verso, lower left, graphite: Portrait de mon père / par lui-même / Ari Redon
  • inscription: verso, lower right, graphite: O. Redon par lui-même / (crayon) [inscribed by Ary Leblond]
  • collector's mark: lower left, black ink: GS [Germain Seligman, Lugt 3863]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Acquired from the artist by Ary Leblond; Mme Ary Leblond. Germain Seligman, New York (Seligman's stamp, lower left, Lugt 3863). Philip Hofer, Cambridge, MA., sold; to
David P. Becker, Portland, ME, gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1994.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of David P. Becker in memory of Philip Hofer
Accession Year
1994
Object Number
1994.73
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • John Richardson, ed., The Collection of Germain Seligman: Paintings, Drawings and Works of Art, E. V. Thaw & Co., Artemis S.A., and David Carritt Ltd. (New York, Luxembourg, and London, 1979), no. 65, repr.
  • Nicholas Wadley, Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Drawing, Dutton Studio Books, New York (New York, NY, 1991), p. 244, fig. 81b
  • Alec Wildenstein, Odilon Redon: Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint et dessiné, Wildenstein Institute (Paris, 1992-1998), vol. 1, no. 4, repr.

Exhibition History

  • Master Drawings, Jacques Seligmann & Co., New York, 11/16/1959 - 12/05/1959

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