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ODILON REDON (1840-1916)
La barque aux âmes inanimées
signed 'ODILON REDON' (lower right)
oil on cradled panel
11 1/2 x 18 3/4 in. (29.2 x 47.6 cm.)
Provenance
Werner Herold, Zurich (by 1938).
Mme Paul Istel, Paris.
Victor D. Spark, New York (by June 1948).
Wildenstein & Co. Inc., New York (acquired from the above, 1948).
Meredith Long Galleries, Houston (acquired from the above, 1961).
The Esther F.W. Goodrich Foundation, Houston (probably acquired from the above, by 1966).
Anon. sale, Sotheby's, New York, 18 May 1983, lot 38.
Acquired at the above sale by the late owners.
Literature
"La peinture française dans les collections suisses," Gazette des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1938, no. 84.
R. Bacou, Odilon Redon Geneva, 1956, vol. 1, p. 156, note 3 (titled La Barque).
R. Bacou, Odilon Redon exh. cat., Orangerie des Tuileries, Paris, 1956, p. 47.
K. Berger, Odilon Redon Fantasy and Color, Cologne, 1965, p. 197, no. 214 (dated after 1900 and titled The Bark With Three Oars).
A. Wildenstein, Odilon Redon Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint et dessiné, Paris, 1996, vol. III, p. 342, no. 1941 (illustrated).
Exhibited
Palm Beach, The Society of the Four Arts, Odilon Redon March-April 1955, no. 13 (titled The Beach).
Caracas, Museo de Bellas Artes, Segunda exposición de obras clásicas de la pintura europea de la galería Wildenstein, December 1956, no. 29 (titled Barca).
Corpus Christi, Centennial Museum, Selections from the Esther F.W. Goodrich Art Foundation Collection, 1966, no. 11.