Pensive Figure with Butterfly Wings
Odilon Redon (1840 - 1916), c. 1871
graphite on paper, 15.7 cm x 13.1 cm
Credits: Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (State of the Netherlands)
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- Object number
- d1080N1996
- Dimensions
- 15.7 cm x 13.1 cm
- Provenance
- Acquired from the artist, Paris by Edmond Deman, Brussels, probably between 1887-1890; probably consigned by Edmond Deman to auction Brussels, Deman, E. (Livres anciens et modernes, dessins & estampes), (cinq petits dessins, dans un carton pour illustrer les Fleurs du mal), purchased by Andries Bonger, Amsterdam, 13-16 May 1903; after his death on 20 January 1936 inherited by his widow, Françoise W.M. Bonger-van der Borch van Verwolde, Amsterdam; after her death in 1975 bequeathed to her heirs, the Netherlands; sold by these heirs to the State of the Netherlands to be placed in the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, 18 December 1996.
- artist
- Odilon Redon
- Credits
- Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (State of the Netherlands)
Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum, Odilon Redon en Emile Bernard. Meesterwerken uit de collectie van Andries Bonger, 10 April-20 September 2009, no. 148
Tilburg, Merel van, Gamboni, Dario, Bonger, Andries, Redon, Odilon, « Sans adieu » : Andries Bonger – Odilon Redon : correspondance 1894-1916, Paris, 2022
Leeman, Fred, Roos Rosa de Carvalho, Fleur, Vergeest, Aukje, Stolwijk, Chris, Odilon Redon en Emile Bernard : meesterwerken uit de collectie van Andries Bonger, Amsterdam, 2009, pp. 128-129
Leeman, Fred, Roos Rosa de Carvalho, Fleur, Vergeest, Aukje, Stolwijk, Chris, Odilon Redon and Emile Bernard : masterpieces from the Andries Bonger collection, Amsterdam, 2009, pp. 128-129
Fontainas, Adrienne, Fontainas, Luc, Edmond Deman éditeur (1857-1918) : art et édition au tournant du siècle, Bruxelles, 1997, pp. 137, 147
Decroocq, M.-C., Lacau St. Guily, A., Wildenstein, Alec, Odilon Redon : catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint et dessiné, Paris, 1992-1998, vol. 2: p. 85
Gamboni, Dario, La plume et le pinceau : Odilon Redon et la littérature, Paris, 1989, pp. 184–185, 189
Fontainas, Luc, Fontainas, Adrienne, Biographie et bibliographie d'Edmond Deman, pp. 309–379, 485–582
Bacou, Roseline, Redon, Odilon, Lettres de Gauguin, Gide, Huysmans, Jammes, Mallarmé, Verhaeren à Odilon Redon, Paris, 1960, p. 294, n. 3
