Odilon Redon (1840-1916)
A DIALOGUE THROUGH ART: WORKS FROM THE JAN KRUGIER COLLECTION
Odilon Redon (1840-1916)

Visage-Germination

Details
Odilon Redon (1840-1916)
Visage-Germination
signed 'ODILON REDON' (lower right)
charcoal on buff paper
20 5/8 x 14 5/8 in. (52.5 x 37.2 cm.)
drawn in 1888
Provenance
(possibly) Ambroise Vollard, Paris.
Private collection, Milan (circa 1967-1974).
Private collection, Switzerland; sale, Sotheby's, London, 25 June 2002, lot 109.
Jan Krugier, acquired at the above sale.
Literature
A. Wildenstein, Odilon Redon: Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint et dessiné, Paris, 1994, vol. II, p. 183, no. 1104 (illustrated).
Exhibited
Turin, Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna, Le Muse Inquietanti: Maestri del Surrealismo, November 1967-January 1968, p. XXI, no. 42 (illustrated, p. 32; titled Illustrazione per Le tentazioni di S. Antonio).
Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Odilon Redon: As in a Dream, January-April 2007, p. 210, no. 108 (illustrated in color).

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