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Odilon Redon

Flowers in a Vase, c. 1910

Not on View

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 55.9 x 39.4 cm (22 x 15 1/2 in.)

framed: 74.3 x 60.6 x 8.3 cm (29 1/4 x 23 7/8 x 3 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Collection

Accession Number

1970.17.56

Artists / Makers

Odilon Redon (artist) French, 1840 - 1916

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Inscription

lower right: ODILON REDON

Provenance

Private collection, Paris, by at least 1959,[1] possibly Jacques Laroche [1904-1976]; by whom sold 1965 to (Wildenstein & Co., New York);[2] sold 20 January 1966 to Ailsa Mellon Bruce [1901-1969], New York;[3] bequest 1970 to NGA.

[1]Lent to an exhibition in London in 1959 from a private collection in Paris.

[2]See letter dated 13 August 1999 from Wildenstein's, in NGA curatorial files.

[3]Invoice from Wildenstein and Co. to Ailsa Mellon Bruce dated 20 January 1966, copy in NGA curatorial records.

Associated Names

Bruce, Ailsa Mellon, Mrs.
Laroche, Jacques
Wildenstein & Co., Inc.

Exhibition History

1959: Odilon Redon 1840-1916, Matthiesen Gallery, London, 1959, no. 69

1986: Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, State Hermitage Museum, Leningrad; State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, 1986, no. 26, repro.

1989: Impressionisti della National Gallery of Art di Washington, Ala Napoleonica e Museo Correr, Venice; Palazzo Reale, Milan, 1989, unnumbered catalogue, repro.

1999: Around Impressionism: French Paintings from the National Gallery of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1999, no cat.

1999: Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art; Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, 1999, no. 72, repro.

2018: Flore d'Odilon Redon, Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum, Tokyo, 2018, no. 87, repro.

Bibliography

1975: European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 284, repro.

1978: Small French Paintings from the Bequest of Ailsa Mellon Bruce. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1978: 34, repro. (continuing exhibition beginning in 1978).

1984: Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 515, no. 772, color repro.

1985: European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 328, repro.