Saint George and the Dragon

1880s and c. 1892

Odilon Redon

Artist, French, 1840 - 1916

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    charcoal and pastel on tan wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of GTE and the New Century Fund

  • Dimensions

    overall: 53.7 x 37.5 cm (21 1/8 x 14 3/4 in.)

  • Accession

    2000.14.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Wildenstein vol. 2, no. 1269


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Andries Bonger, Almen (The Hague); (Jacques Seligman & Co., New York); Dr. and Mrs. George E. Murphy, New York; Annette Cross Murphy, New York; (sale, Christie's, New York, 16 May 1990, no. 116); (Artemis, London); purchased 2000 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1951

  • Odilon Redon, 1840 - 1916, Pastels and Drawings, Jacques Seligman and Co., Inc., New York, The Cleveland Museum of Art and The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 1951 - 1952, no. 12.

1954

  • Reality and Fantasy 1900 - 1954, The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 1954, no. 137.

1956

  • Visionaries and Dreamers, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., 1956, no. 32.

1957

  • Bosch, Goya et le Fantastique, Bordeaux (VIIe Exposition internationale de Bordeaux, organized by L'Association d'action française artistique), 1957, no. 337.

1970

  • Odilon Redon, Acquavella Galleries, Inc., New York, 1970, no. 2.

2000

  • Art for the Nation: Collecting for a New Century, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2000-2001, 216.

2007

  • As in a Dream: Odilon Redon, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, 2007, Margaret Stuffman et al., no. 164.

2009

  • The Darker Side of Light: Arts of Privacy, 1850-1900, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; NGA; Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, 2009 - 2010

2019

  • The Touch of Color: Pastels at the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2019 - 2020, unnumbered catalogue.

Bibliography

1965

  • Berger, Klaus. Odilon Redon, Fantasy and Colour. New York, 1965: no. 363, plates 27 and 27a.

1992

  • Wildenstein, Alec. Odilon Redon, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint et dessiné. 4 vols. Paris, 1992-1998: vol. 2, no. 1269 (color repro.)

2015

  • Busine, Laurent and Manfred Sellink, eds. The Glory of Saint George: Man, Dragon and Death. Brussels, 2015: 92-93, fig. 74.

Inscriptions

upper right in image: ODILON REDON; lower right in image: ODILON REDON

Wikidata ID

Q64618527


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