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Tears (Les Pleurs)
Odilon Redon (French, 1840–1916)
1878
Medium/Technique
Charcoal with opaque white watercolor on paper
Dimensions
Sheet: 44.5 x 35.6 cm (17 1/2 x 14 in.)
Framed: 74.3 x 62.9 cm (29 1/4 x 24 3/4 in.)
Framed: 74.3 x 62.9 cm (29 1/4 x 24 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Partial purchase with funds from the Sophie M. Friedman Fund, Ruth V. S. Lauer in memory of Julia Wheaton Saines, Susan Bennett, and Claire and Richard Morse, and partial gift of Elizabeth Marshall Thomas and John K. Marshall
Accession Number2005.199
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsDrawings
Catalogue Raisonné
Wildenstein 1135
Signed
Lower left: ODILON REDON
ProvenanceAmbroise Vollard (dealer; b. 1867 - d. 1939), Paris [see note 1]. Antoine de La Rochefoucauld (b. 1862 - d. 1959), Marilles, France [see note 2]. By 1957, Galerie Jacques Dubourg, Paris [see note 3]; 1958, sold by Jacques Dubourg to Laurence K. Marshall, Cambridge, MA; by descent to his widow, Lorna J. Marshall, Cambridge; 2002, by descent to Elizabeth Marshall Thomas and John K. Marshall; 2005, sold by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas and John K. Marshall to the MFA. (Accession Date: April 27, 2005)
NOTES:
[1] According to Alec Wildenstein, Odilon Redon (Paris, 1992-1998), vol. 2, pp. 198-199, no. 1135. [2] According to the Mellerio-Redon chronology, the chronological list of Redon's works received by André Mellerio in November, 1921; see D. Druick, ed., Odilon Redon: Prince of Dreams, 1840-1916 (exh. cat., Art Institute of Chicago, 1994), p. 451, no. 71. [3] Lent to the exhibition "Odilon Redon" (Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, May 3 - June 23, 1957), cat. no. 14 (as "Tête ailée dans le ciel").
NOTES:
[1] According to Alec Wildenstein, Odilon Redon (Paris, 1992-1998), vol. 2, pp. 198-199, no. 1135. [2] According to the Mellerio-Redon chronology, the chronological list of Redon's works received by André Mellerio in November, 1921; see D. Druick, ed., Odilon Redon: Prince of Dreams, 1840-1916 (exh. cat., Art Institute of Chicago, 1994), p. 451, no. 71. [3] Lent to the exhibition "Odilon Redon" (Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, May 3 - June 23, 1957), cat. no. 14 (as "Tête ailée dans le ciel").