ODILON REDON
Bordeaux 1840-1916 Paris
Le Prisonnier à La Lucarne
Signed lower left, ODILON REDON
Charcoal
12 ¾ x 20 ¹⁄₁₆ inches
350 x 510 mm
Provenance
André Bonger, Amsterdam, by descent to
Mme. André Bonger-van Gogh, Almen, The Netherlands
The New Gallery, 1960
Private collection, New York, until 2012
Exhibitions
Paris, Orangerie des Tuileries, Odilon Redon, October 1956 – January 1957, cat. no. 24
The Hague, Stedelijk Museum, Odilon Redon, 1957, cat. no. 10
The Hague, Gemeentemuseum, Dienst voor Schone Kunsten, May 1957, cat. no. 22
Berne, Kunsthalle, Odilon Redon, 1840-1916, August 9 – October 12, 1958, cat. no. 25
Poughkeepsie, Vassar College Art Museum, and New York, Wildenstein, Vassar Centennial Loan Exhibition, 1961, cat. no. 97, illustrated
New York, Museum of Modern Art, and Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, Odilon Redon, Gustave Moreau, Rodolphe Bresdin, 1961-62, p. 176, cat. no. 95
Literature
M. D. Henkel, “Die Sammlung A. Bonger in Amsterdam,” in Der Cicerone, 1930, p. 602, pl. 6
D. A. de Graaf, “Odilon Redon,” in Apollo, (The Hague edition), May 1940, p. 22, illustrated
R. Bacou, Odilon Redon, Geneva, 1956, I, p. 72, n. 1; vol. II, no. 32, fig. 32
R. L. Herbert, Seurat’s Drawings, 1962, p. 78, illustrated
R. Bacou, “The Bonger Collection at Almen, Holland,” in Apollo, November 1964, no. 80, p. 401, fig. 5
K. Berger, Odilon Redon, Fantasie und Farbe, Cologne, 1964, no. 591
“The Temptation of Saint Anthony by Odilon Redon,” in Mead Museum Monographs, vol. II, Autumn 1980, pp. 29-30, fig. 7
D. Gamboni, La Plume et le pinceau. Odilon Redon et la literature, Paris, 1989, fig. 34
Seurat, exhibition catalogue, Paris, Grand Palais, 1991, p. 98, fig. 21
A. Wildenstein, Odilon Redon: Catalogue Raisonné de L'Oeuvre Peint et Dessiné, Vol. II: Mythes et légendes, Paris, 1994, p. 161, cat. no. 1068 (as Le Prisonnier à La Lucarne), illustrated
PRIVATE COLLECTION, NEW YORK