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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 12, 2018 | Christie's | New York | Impressionist and Modern Art Work on Paper | 159 | $****** - ****** | Les boues ou Dans la fange primitive ou Dans les boues primordiales |
Works on Paper
29.5 x 24.2 cm (11.61 x 9.53 in)
charcoal on paper
signed 'ODILON REDON.' (lower right)
Robert de Domecy, France (acquired from the artist).
Private collection, France (by descent from the above).
Kunsthandel Wolfgang Werner, Berlin and Bremen. <- 1 location
Kunsthandel Sabine Helms, Munich (by 1996).
Anon. sale, Sotheby's, London, 14 November 2007, lot 258.
Acquired at the above sale by the late owner.
Paris, Galerie Charpentier, Fusains d'Odilon Redon, La Vie Moderne, April-May 1881.
Paris, Le Gaulois, Deuxième exposition des dessins de M. Odilon Redon, February 1882.
Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, Exposition de peinture et sculpture par 33 artistes français et étrangers, January 1888, p. 36, no. 296 (titled Mauvais génies).
Paris, Galerie Durand-Ruel et Cie., Odilon Redon, March-April 1894, p. 18, no. 46.
Lugano, Museo Cantonale d'Arte, Odilon Redon: La Natura dell'Invisible, September-November 1996, p. 176, no. 38 (illustrated in color, p. 177).
Frankfurt, Schirn Kunsthalle, Darwin: Art and the Search for Origins, February-May 2009, p. 273, no. 116 (illustrated in color, p. 163).
E. Hennequin, "Odilon Redon," Beaux-Arts, 1886.
J.E. Schmitt, "Choses d'art, Exposition Odilon Redon," Le Siècle, 31 March 1894, p. 2.
P. Verdun, "Album d'artiste," Le peuple français, 31 March 1894, p. 2.
Auriant, "Des lettres inédites d'Odilon Redon," Beaux-Arts, no. 127, 7 June 1935, p. 2.
D.W. Druick, ed., Odilon Redon: Prince of Dreams, exh. cat., The Art Institute of Chicago, 1994, pp. 128-129, 134-135 and 453 (illustrated, p. 129, fig. 5:4 and illustrated again, p. 135, fig. 13:14).
O. Christ, "Wiederentdeckung eines Mystikers," Kunst und Antiquitäten, December 1994, p. 14 (illustrated in color, fig. 4).
A. Wildenstein, Odilon Redon: Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint et dessiné, Etudes et grandes décorations, Supplément, Paris, 1998, vol. IV, p. 275, no. 2635 (illustrated; illustrated again in color, p. 328).
B. Larson, The Dark Side of Nature: Science, Society, and the Fantastic World of Odilon Redon, University Park, Pennsylvania, 2005, pp. 90-91(illustrated, p. 91, fig. 76).
signed 'ODILON REDON.' (lower right)
charcoal on paper
11 5/8 x 9 ½ in. (29.5 x 24.2 cm.)
Drawn circa 1880
