ODILON REDON (1840-1916)
ODILON REDON (1840-1916)
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ODILON REDON (1840-1916)

Penseur (Homme nu dans un paysage)

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ODILON REDON (1840-1916)
Penseur (Homme nu dans un paysage)
signed and dated ODILON REDON 1874 (lower right)
charcoal and pen and India ink on buff paper
34,1 x 28,3 cm. (13 3⁄8 x 11 1⁄8 in.)
Executed in 1874
Provenance
Jules Tannery (1848-1919), Paris; probably a gift from the artist in 1874; then by descent until 1986.
Christie's, London, 25 March 1986, lot 204.
Galerie Jan Krugier & Cie., Geneva; acquired at the above sale.
Private collection; acquired from the above in 1991; Christie's, New York, 15 May 1997, lot 220.
Acquired at the above sale; then by descent to the present owners.
Literature
Odilon Redon, exh. cat., National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, 1989, fig. 1, p. 41 (ill.; titled 'Man in a Landscape' and with incorrect medium).
D. Druick (ed.), Odilon Redon: Prince of Dreams, exh. cat., The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 1994, fig. 22, p. 84 (ill.; titled 'Pensaroso' and with incorrect medium).
A. Wildenstein, Odilon Redon - Catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre peint et dessiné, vol. II, Mythes et légendes, Paris, 1994, no. 837, p. 47 (ill.; with incorrect medium).
Exhibited
Hamburg, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Mit dem inneren Auge sehen – Meisterwerke aus der Sammlung Hegewisch, September 2016 - January 2017, no. 36, pp. 46 (ill.) & 77 (titled 'Der Denker - Mann in einer Landschaft'; with incorrect medium).

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