Odilon Redon (1840-1916)

Jeune femme de profil dans une sphère lumineuse

细节

Odilon Redon (1840-1916)
Jeune femme de profil dans une sphère lumineuse
signed 'Odilon Redon' (lower right)
watercolour on paper
93/8 x 7¼in. (23.6 x 18.4cm.)
Executed circa 1910

来源

Private Collection, France.
Anon. sale, Hôtel des Ventes, Angoulême, 12-13 October 1996.

出版

A. Wildenstein, Odilon Redon. Catalogue raisonné, Etudes et grandes décorations, Supplément aux trois premiers volumes, vol. IV, 1998, Paris, no. 2580, p. 248.

拍场告示

Please note that the medium of this work is watercolour and pencil on paper.

拍品专文

The profile is a key element in Redon's oeuvre. It is the symbolic point of intersection between the viewer and the the artist's inner world. The profile becomes a powerful and androgynous motif that Redon adapts with equal ease to his depictions of Christ, Apollo, and his various femmes-fleurs. In Jeune femme de profil dans une sphère lumineuse, the profile is combined with a luminous sphere whose shape also reappears, though metamorphosed, in other watercolours, pastels, and oils by Redon (W. 239-300). The figure's 'coiffure à l'anglaise' also recurs in one of his charcoal drawings (W. 161).