ODILON REDON (1840-1916) Saint Jean
signed 'Odilon Redon' (lower right)
pastel on paper
17 1/2 x 12 1/8 in. (44.5 x 30.8 cm.)
Executed circa 1910
ODILON REDON (1840-1916) Saint Jean
signed 'Odilon Redon' (lower right)
pastel on paper
17 1/2 x 12 1/8 in. (44.5 x 30.8 cm.)
Executed circa 1910
Arthur Fontaine, Paris; Estate sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 13 April 1932, lot 17. Anon. sale, Sotheby’s, New York, 11 May 1994, lot 20. Acquired at the above sale by the late owner.
A. Wildenstein, Odilon Redon: Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint et dessin, portraits et figures, Paris, 1992, vol. I, p. 178, no. 445 (illustrated).
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