About the Artwork
Evocation of Butterflies
ca. between 1910 and 1912
Odilon Redon
1840-1916
French
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Oil on canvas
Unframed: 21 3/4 × 16 1/4 inches (55.2 × 41.3 cm) Framed: 27 1/2 × 23 7/8 × 1 3/4 inches (69.9 × 60.6 × 4.4 cm)
Paintings
European Modern Art to 1970
City of Detroit Purchase
25.201
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Markings
Signed, lower left: Odilon Redon
Provenance
(Josef Hessel, Paris, France);1925-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Poland, R.E. "Two Paintings by Odilon Redon." Bulletin of the DIA 7, no. 2 (1925): pp. 21-22.
Exhibition of Paintings, Pastels, Drawings, Water Colours, Lithographs by Odilon Redon. Exh. cat., De Hauke & Co., Inc. New York, November 1928, no. 2.
Paintings, Pastels, and Drawings by Odilon Redon 1840-1916. Exh. cat., Art Institute of Chicago. Chicago, 1928-1929, p. 12, no. 9.
Heil, W. Catalogue of Paintings in the Permanent Collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1930, cat. 177 (ill.).
Tenth Loan Exhibition Lautrec Redon. Exh. cat., Museum of Modern Art. New York, 1931, p. 27, no. 85.
Richardson, E.P., ed. Detroit Institute of Arts, Catalogue of Paintings. Detroit, 1944, p. 107, no. 177.
Robb, D.M. The Harper History of Painting: The Occidental Tradition. New York, 1951, p. 794 (fig. 435).
Bacou, R. Odilon Redon, vol. 1. Geneva, 1956, p. 219.
Art from Ingres to Pollock. Exh. cat., University of California, Berkeley. Berkeley, 1960, pp. 24, 27, 55 (ill.).
Berger, Klaus. Odilon Redon, Phantasie und Farbe. Cologne, 1964, p. 203, no. 303. [as 1910-1912.]
Wilson, M., Nature and Imagination: The Work of Odilon Redon. Oxford, 1978, p. 73, color pl. 62. [as 1910-12.]
Homage à Odilon Redon. Exh. cat., Musée des Beaux-Arts. Bordeaux, 1985, p. 175, no. 157 (ill.).
The Great Artists, part 82, vol. 4. London, 1986, p. 2617 (ill.).
Masterpieces from the Detroit Institute of Arts. Exh. cat., Bunkamura Museum of Art, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, and Museum of Modern Art. Tokyo, Kyoto, and Ibaraki, 1989, pp. 94, 221, no. 62 (ill.).
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Odilon Redon, Evocation of Butterflies, ca. between 1910 and 1912, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, City of Detroit Purchase, 25.201.
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