Lot 19Odilon Redon
French, 1840-1916
Profile of a Woman (after Leonardo da Vinci's Busto d'Isabella d'Este)
Signed Redon (lr)
Pencil on buff paper
14 5/8 10 5/8 inches (37.1 x 27 cm)

Provenance:
Marius-Ary Leblond (possibly)
Anon. sale: Sotheby's, Tokyo, Oct. 1-3, 1969, lot 298
Private collection, acquired at the above sale
Sale: Christie's, New York, May 5, 2005, lot 108
Acquired by the current owner from the above sale

Exhibited:
Paris, Galerie Barbazanges, Exposition Retrospective Odilon Redon, May 18-Jun. 15, 1920, no. 77
Paris, Galerie E. Druet, Exposition Odilon Redon, 1923, no. 110
Paris, Musee du Petit Palais, Odilon Redon, Feb.-Mar. 1934, possibly no. 132
Takasaki, Japan, Gunma Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Odilon Redon Apr.-May 1982, no. 29, illus.

Literature:
A. Wildenstein, Odilon Redon, Catalogue Raisonne de l'oeuvre peinte et dessine, Paris, 1998, vol. IV, p. 17, no. 1981. illus.

C 

Unsold
Estimate $10,000-15,000

Toned; matburn; discoloration along the right edge. Some surface dirt and wear along the edges.


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