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Odilon Redon

Saint Georges et le dragon

Estimate

120,000 - 180,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property of a Private East Coast Collector 

Odilon Redon

1840 - 1916


Saint Georges et le dragon

signed Odilon Redon (lower left)

oil on canvas 

18 by 15 in. 

45.7 by 38.1 cm. 

A. M. Haudebert, Paris (acquired by 1920) 

Dr. Desjardins, Paris (acquired by 1920 and until at least 1926) 

Jacques Dubourg, Paris 

Silberman Galleries, New York 

Private Collection, United States

Thence by descent to the present owner 

(possibly) Paris, Galerie Barbazanges, Exposition rétrospective d’oeuvres d'Odilon Redon (1840-1916), 1920, no. 40 

(possibly) Paris, Musée des arts décoratifs, Odilon Redon, Exposition rétrospective de son oeuvre, 1926, n.n. 

(possibly) London, Alex Reid & Lefevre, Ltd., Paintings and Pastels by Odilon Redon, 1926, no. 10

Robert Rey, “Odilon Redon,” Art et décoration, vol. XXXVIII, July-December 1910, p. 40, illustrated (titled Pégase et l’Hydre)

Georges Jean Aubry, “Odilon Redon,” La Renaissance de l’art français, January 1920, p. 334, illustrated 

Charles Fegdal, “Les Débuts d’Odilon Redon,” Dernières nouvelles des arts, Paris, 1929, pl. LVIII, illustrated

Exh. Cat., Paris, Musée de l'Orangerie, Odilon Redon, 1956-57, no. 163, p. 81

Klaus Berger, Odilon Redon: Phantasie und Farbe, Cologne, 1964, no. 371, p. 209 (titled Rider with Spear. St George and the Dragon)

Alec Wildenstein, Odilon Redon, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint et dessiné, Mythes et légendes, vol. II, Paris, 1994, no. 1271, p. 278, illustrated; p. 279