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