Crucifixion

Details

Odilon Redon (1840-1916)
Crucifixion
signed 'ODILON REDON' (lower left)
charcoal on paper
20 ½ x 11 in. (52 x 28 cm.)

Provenance

Ambroise Vollard, Paris.
Ary Leblond, Paris.
Anon. sale, Sotheby & Co., London, 8 July 1971, lot 30.
Private collection, Tokyo; sale, Christie's, New York, 7 November 2002, lot 120.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Literature

K. Berger, Odilon Redon: Fantasy and Colour, New York, 1965, p. 233, no. 700 (dated 1895-1898; titled Christ on the Cross).
World Collectors Annuary, January-December 1971, vol. XXIII, p. 458.
R. Bacou, La Donation Ari¨ et Suzanne Redon, exh. cat., Musée du Louvre, Paris, 1984, cited under no. 23.
A. Wildenstein, Odilon Redon: Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint et dessiné, Portraits et figures, Paris, 1992, vol. I, p. 206, no. 520 (illustrated, p. 207).

Exhibited

Paris, Orangerie des Tuileries, Odilon Redon, October 1956-January 1957, p. 27, no. 49 (titled Christ en croix).
London, The Matthiesen Gallery, Odilon Redon, May-June 1959, no. 34 (illustrated; titled Christ en croix).
Kamakura, Kanagawa Museum of Modern Art and Nagoya, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Odilon Redon, September-November 1973, p. 32, no. 18 (illustrated, pl. 18).

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