Cain and Abel, 1886

Not on View

Medium

etching on wove paper

Dimensions

plate: 18.9 x 12 cm (7 7/16 x 4 3/4 in.)

sheet: 33 x 25.2 cm (13 x 9 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

Catalogue Raisonné

Mellerio 1913, no. 18

Accession Number

2006.57.27

Artists / Makers

Odilon Redon (artist) French, 1840 - 1916

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left: Odilon Redon; in later hand of Madame Redon: Cain & Abel; in unidentified later hand: (Mme Redon's writing) (bought direct from her). Etching -1886 - 20 proofs only Mellerio No. 18 each NNX / MXX; by later hand lower left verso: A16828

Provenance

(Kennedy Galleries, New York); Mrs. Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased September 16, 1970; gift to NGA, 2006.

Associated Names

Kainen, Jacob, Mrs.
Kennedy Galleries

Exhibition History

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

Bibliography

1913: Mellerio, Andre. Odilon Redon. Paris: Societe pour l'Etude de la Gravure Francais, 1913. Reprint. New York: Da Capo Press, 1968.