The Book of Light

1893

Odilon Redon

Artist, French, 1840 - 1916

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    charcoal on tan paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 52.2 x 37.5 cm (20 9/16 x 14 3/4 in.)

  • Accession

    1951.16.64

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Wildenstein vol. 1, no. 194

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1978

  • Master Drawings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art and Promised Gifts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1978, p. 107.

Bibliography

1984

  • Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 683, no. 1101, color repro.

1992

  • Wildenstein, Alec. Odilon Redon, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint et dessiné. 4 vols. Paris, 1992-98, vol. 1: no. 194 (repr.).

1994

  • Druick, Douglas et al. Odilon Redon: prince of dreams, 1840-1916. Chicago, 1994: fig. 90, p. 176, 178.

2012

  • Grasselli, Margaret Morgan, and Andrew Robison. Color, Line, Light: French Drawings, Watercolors, and Pastels from Delacroix to Signac. Exh. cat. Musée des impressionnismes Giverny and National Gallery of Art. Washington, 2012: 97, 98, fig. 3 (color).

Inscriptions

lower left: ODILON REDON; in later hand, lower right verso in graphite: (illegible)

Wikidata ID

Q64618522

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