Odilon Redon
The Eye (Vision)
1880
Physical Qualities
Various charcoals with incising, stumping, and traces of pastel on paper, Sheet: 420 × 369 mm. (16 9/16 × 14 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Nelson and Juanita Greif Gutman Fund
Object Number
1966.29
Monocular orb with hair.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1966; Paul Rosenberg, New York, c. 1963; Ambroise Vollard (1867-1939), Paris, c. 1900.
Paul Rosenberg and Co., New York, '19th and 20th Century French Drawings and Watercolors', Feb. 4-March 2, 1963, no. 26.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 'Rousseau, Redon and Fantasy', May-Sept. 1968, p. 4.
Victor Carlson and Carol Hynning Smith, BMA, "Master Drawings and Watercolors of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries"; circulated by the American Federation of Arts to the Guggenheim Museum, NY, 24 August - 7 October 1979; Des Moines Art Center, 19 November 1979 - 6 January 1980; Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, 8 February - 16 March, 1980; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1 May - 22 June 1980 ; Denver Art Museum, 12 July - 24 August, 1980.
BMA, "Master Drawings and Watercolors of the 19th and 20th Centuries from the Museum Collection," 14 October - 28 November, 1982.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, 'Master Drawings by French Artists in the Museum's Collection', May 14-July 23, 1989.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, 'As Artists See Us: Drawings from the Museum Collection', May 14-Aug. 11, 1991.
Douglas Druick, Art Institute of Chicago, 'Odilon Redon: Prince of Dreams 1840-1916', June 25-Sept. 18, 1994, pp. 133 and 439, no. 61; circulated to Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, Oct. 20, 1994-Jan. 15, 1995; Royal Academy of Arts, London, Feb. 22-May 21, 1995.
Régis Michel, Musée du Louvre, Paris, 'La peinture comme crime', Oct. 19-Jan 14, 2002, cat. no. 108, p. 361; ill. p. 155 and cover.
Doreen Bolger, The Baltimore Museum of Art, 'Haunting Visions of Poe; Illustrations by Manet, Matisse & Gauguin,' Sept. 17, 2003-Jan. 11, 2004.
Doreen Bolger, BMA, "Edgar Allan Poe: A Baltimore Icon," 4 October 2009 - 17 January 2010.
Réunion des Musées Nationaux, "Odilon Redon Retrospective," March 22 - June 20, 2011, cat. no. 36, p. 150.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 'Rousseau, Redon and Fantasy', May-Sept. 1968, p. 4.
Victor Carlson and Carol Hynning Smith, BMA, "Master Drawings and Watercolors of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries"; circulated by the American Federation of Arts to the Guggenheim Museum, NY, 24 August - 7 October 1979; Des Moines Art Center, 19 November 1979 - 6 January 1980; Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, 8 February - 16 March, 1980; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1 May - 22 June 1980 ; Denver Art Museum, 12 July - 24 August, 1980.
BMA, "Master Drawings and Watercolors of the 19th and 20th Centuries from the Museum Collection," 14 October - 28 November, 1982.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, 'Master Drawings by French Artists in the Museum's Collection', May 14-July 23, 1989.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, 'As Artists See Us: Drawings from the Museum Collection', May 14-Aug. 11, 1991.
Douglas Druick, Art Institute of Chicago, 'Odilon Redon: Prince of Dreams 1840-1916', June 25-Sept. 18, 1994, pp. 133 and 439, no. 61; circulated to Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, Oct. 20, 1994-Jan. 15, 1995; Royal Academy of Arts, London, Feb. 22-May 21, 1995.
Régis Michel, Musée du Louvre, Paris, 'La peinture comme crime', Oct. 19-Jan 14, 2002, cat. no. 108, p. 361; ill. p. 155 and cover.
Doreen Bolger, The Baltimore Museum of Art, 'Haunting Visions of Poe; Illustrations by Manet, Matisse & Gauguin,' Sept. 17, 2003-Jan. 11, 2004.
Doreen Bolger, BMA, "Edgar Allan Poe: A Baltimore Icon," 4 October 2009 - 17 January 2010.
Réunion des Musées Nationaux, "Odilon Redon Retrospective," March 22 - June 20, 2011, cat. no. 36, p. 150.
Paul Carter, 'Second Sight: Looking Back as Colonial Vision', Australian Art Journal, 13 (1996); p. 22, 35; no. 7c.
Foirades/Fizzles: Echo and Allusion in the Art of Jasper Johns, Los Angeles: University of California (Wight Art Gallery), 1987, p. 131, fig. 17.
A. Werner, 'Odilon Redon', Art and Artists, 6:4 (July 1971), p. 15.
Max Kozloff, Jasper Johns, New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1968, plate 108.
'Accessions Report', The Baltimore Museum of Art News 28:1-2 (1967), ill. p. 52.
'La Chronique des Arts', Gazette des Beaux Arts 1176 (February 1967), p. 103, no. 366.
Fisher, Jay McKean, et al. The Essence of Line: French drawings from Ingres to Degas. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2005, p. 316-19, ill.
'Edgar Allan Poe,' "BMA Today," Fall-Winter 2009, pp. 8-9, ill. p. 9.
Danilo Eccher, 'Collezioni : Allestimento 2009 - 2011,' Venice: Umberto Allemandi and C., 2010, p.170.
"Sommaire", France:PEFC, 2011.
Pierre Georgel (ed), "Victor Hugo La Legende Des Siecles", Paris: Citadelles & Mazenod, 2013
Hugo, Victor, Charles Baudelaire, and Pierre Georgel. La Le´gende Des Sie`cles Les Petites E´pope´es. Paris: Citadelles & Mazenod, 2013, p. 51.
Carlson, Victor, and Carol Hynning Smith. Master Drawings and Watercolors of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: The Baltimore Museum of Art. New York, NY: The American Federation of Arts, 1979, pp. 71, ill.
Inscribed: lower right in chalk: "Odilon Redon"
