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Odilon Redon "L'Apparition" Painting

Creator: Odilon Redon
Offered by: Macklowe Gallery, Ltd

Description
Item #: ML-20897
Artist: Odilon Redon
Country: France
Circa: 1900
Dimensions: 8.875" high x 7.5" wide {Framed 13..25" high x 12" wide x 2" deep}
Materials: Oil on paper, laid down on board
Signed: initials (OD.R)
Provenance: Hotel Druout, Paris, February 27, 1909, lot 52 Bernheim-Jeune & Cie., Paris (acquired from the above)
Exhibition History: Prague, Société Manes, 1910 The Art Institute of Chicago, Private Collection in Chicago, 1969

Redon’s Apparition is a depiction of the artist’s dream. As nineteenth-century artists explored their relationship with the natural world, Redon depicts a veritable golden age in which man and nature live in harmony. As the viewer becomes lost in the wilderness, they encounter the divine: a figure in a Phrygian cap, cloak, and leopard skin. The first depictions of Phrygian clothing were in the Persian capital of Persepolis but it was later adopted by the Ancient Greeks and Romans. In the influential Persian epic, Shahnameh (Book of Kings) the earliest Shahs wore leopard skin. Accordingly, the attire of Redon’s figure evokes an idealized past of democratic ideals and peaceful coexistence with the animal kingdom.

More Information

Documentation:	Signed
Period:	1900-1919
Condition:	Good.
Styles / Movements:	Other
Dealer Reference #:	ML-20897
Incollect Reference #:	625438

Dimensions

W.	7.5 in;	H.	8.875 in;	D.	2 in;
W.	19.05 cm;	H.	22.54 cm;	D.	5.08 cm;

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