ID 1209974 
Lot 768  | ODILON REDON (1840-1916)
Estimate value
$ 100 000 – 150 000 
Redon, O.
La Désespérance, dit aussi La Souffrance
signed 'ODILON REDON' (lower left)
oil on paper laid down on cradled panel
28 x 20 7/8 in. (71.1 x 53 cm.)
Provenance
Charles Hayem, Paris (acquired from the artist, 1886).
Robert de Domecy, Sermizelles, France (by 1923).
Anon. sale, Drouot-Montaigne, Paris, 2 June 1988, lot 47.
The Ian Woodner Family Collection, New York (acquired at the above sale).
The Museum of Modern Art, New York (gift from the above, 2000); sale, Sotheby's, New York, 3 May 2012, lot 158.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Literature
A. Mellerio, Odilon Redon: Peintre, dessinateur et graveur, Paris, 1923, p. 213 (illustrated, p. 63).
R. Bacou, Odilon Redon: La vie et l'oeuvre, point de vue de la critique au sujet de l'oeuvre, Geneva, 1956, vol. 1, p. 125 (dated circa 1890-1895).
K. Berger, Odilon Redon, Phantasie und Farbe, Cologne, 1965, p. 186, no. 66.
A. Wildenstein, Odilon Redon: Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint et dessiné, Portraits et figures, Paris, 1994, vol. I, p. 179, no. 447 (illustrated).
Exhibited
Tokyo, The National Museum of Modern Art; Kobe, The Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art; Nagoya, Aichi Prefectural Art Gallery, Odilon Redon, March-July 1989, p. 119, no. 141 (illustrated; dated circa 1890-1895).
Barcelona, Museu Picasso; Madrid, Fundación Juan March; Memphis, The Dixon Gallery and Gardens; Lausanne, Fondation de l'Hermitage, Odilon Redon, The Ian Woodner Family Collection, 1989-1990, p. 32, no. 66 (illustrated in color, p. 92; dated circa 1890-1895).
| Artist: | Odilon Redon (1840 - 1916) | 
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| Artist: | Odilon Redon (1840 - 1916) | 
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