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Odilon Redon

Saint Sebastian, 1910/1912

West Building, Main Floor — Gallery 80

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 144 x 62.5 cm (56 11/16 x 24 5/8 in.)

framed: 165.7 x 84.8 cm (65 1/4 x 33 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Chester Dale Collection

Accession Number

1963.10.57

Artists / Makers

Odilon Redon (artist) French, 1840 - 1916

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Inscription

lower left: ODILON REDON

Provenance

Jules Chavasse, Paris; (his sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 22 June 1922, no. 25, repro.). (Reinhardt Galleries, New York); probably by whom sold by 1928 to Mrs. Lotus Robb Smith, New York, until at least 1931;[1] Sold 1937 by an anonymous collector to (Julius H. Weitzner [1896-1986], London and New York);[2] sold 20 October 1950 to Chester Dale [1882-1962], New York; gift 1963 to NGA.

[1]Exhibited at De Hauke and Co., New York, in 1928, on loan from Mrs. Lotus Robb Smith, possibly through Reinhardt gallery. See de Hauke records in Seligmann papers at Archives of American Art, boxes 386 and 406 (copies NGA curatorial files). Published in Robb's collection in Parnassus, March 1931.

[2]See Weitzner receipt dated 20 October 1950 in NGA curatorial files. The anonymous collector who sold Weitzner the painting is almost certainly Mr. Smith, whom Lotus Robb divorced c. 1937. She later married Mr. Marvin Ross, who detailed how she returned the paintings to her former husband when they divorced, and he immediately sold them; see note by David Rust dated January 1965 in NGA curatorial files.

Associated Names

Chavasse, Jules
Dale, Chester
Drouot, Hôtel
Reinhardt Galleries
Smith, Lotus Robb, Mrs.
Weitzner, Julius H.

Exhibition History

1928: Odilon Redon, De Hauke & Co., New York, 1928, no. 10

1947: Symbolism in Painting, Museum of Modern Art, New York, and numerous other venues, 1947-1948

1965: The Chester Dale Bequest, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1965, unnumbered checklist.

2010: From Impressionism to Modernism: The Chester Dale Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, January 2010-January 2012, unnumbered catalogue, repro.

Bibliography

1931: "List of Important Redons in the United States." Parnassus (March 1931):37

1965: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Paintings & Sculpture of the French School in the Chester Dale Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 137, repro.

1965: Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 108.

1968: National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 96, repro.

1975: European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 282, repro.

1984: Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 515, no. 771, color repro.

1985: European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 327, repro.