{"data":{"id":90316,"api_model":"artworks","api_link":"https:\/\/api.artic.edu\/api\/v1\/artworks\/90316","is_boosted":false,"title":"Guardian Spirit of the Waters","alt_titles":null,"thumbnail":{"lqip":"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhBAAFAPQAAD42KEtALmJQNWpWOW5YOW9ZOm5ZO3ZhQntkRIFoRYhrRY5vRYlvSYxvSJ98TaJ+T6+IU7OLV7WMVsGUWQAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACH5BAAAAAAALAAAAAAEAAUAAAURoBIYU7EADiEM0NNEUoIcTAgAOw==","width":1840,"height":2250,"alt_text":"A work made of various charcoals, with touches of black chalk, stumping, erasing, incising, and subtractive sponge work, heightened with traces of white chalk, on cream wove paper altered to a golden tone."},"main_reference_number":"1950.1428","has_not_been_viewed_much":false,"boost_rank":null,"date_start":1878,"date_end":1878,"date_display":"1878","date_qualifier_title":"","date_qualifier_id":null,"artist_display":"Odilon Redon\nFrench, 1840-1916","place_of_origin":"France","description":null,"short_description":null,"dimensions":"46.6 \u00d7 37.6 cm (18 3\/8 \u00d7 14 13\/16 in.)","dimensions_detail":[{"depth":null,"width":37,"height":46,"diameter":null,"clarification":null}],"medium_display":"Various charcoals, with touches of black chalk, stumping, erasing, incising, and subtractive sponge work, heightened with traces of white chalk, on cream wove paper altered to a golden tone","inscriptions":"Signed lower left, in black chalk: \"OD.R.\"","credit_line":"David Adler Collection","catalogue_display":null,"publication_history":"Hugh Edwards, \"Redon, Flaubert, Vollard,\" Bulletin of The Art Institute of Chicago, 36:1 (1942), p. 4 (ill.).\n\nWilliam Lieberman, \"Redon, Drawings, and Lithographs,\" The Museum of Modern Art Bulletin, XIX:2 (Winter, 1952), p. 6 (ill.).\n\nPaul Sachs, Modern Prints and Drawings (New York, 1954), p. 54, pl. 47.\n\nSven Sandstr\u00f6m, Le Monde imaginarie d'Olidon Redon (Lund, 1955), pp. 171 and 226, fig 134.\n\nRoseline Bacou, Odilon Redon (Geneva, 1956), p. 70, note 2.\n\nKlaus Berger, Odilon Redon, Fantasy and Colour, trans. by Michael Bullock (New York, 1965 ), p. 225, no. 584 and 594, fig. 45.\n\nJean Selz, Odilon Redon, translated by Eileen Hennessy, (Naefels, 1978), p. 14 (ill.). \n\nRichard Hobbs, Odilon Redon (London, 1977), p. 26 fig. 17.\n\nHarold Joachim and Sandra Haller Olsen, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century (Chicago, 1979) p. 79, 4D8.\n\nRichard R. Brettell, French Impressionists (Chicago, 1987), pp. 94-95 and 119 (ill.).\n\nJean Vialla, Odilon Redon (Paris, 1988), p. 78 (ill.).\n\nKlaus Berger, \"Odilon Redon,\" Encyclopaedia Universalis (1989), p. 646.\n\nAlec Wildenstein, Odilon Redon: Catalogue Raisonn\u00e9 de l'oeuvre peint et dessin\u00e9 2 (Paris, 1994), pp. 196-197,  no. 1129 (ill.).\n\nHoward Smagula, Creative Drawing, 2nd ed. (London, 2001), pp. 180-181, fig. 8.16.\n\nSusan M. Canning, Patrick Florizoone, Nancy Ireson, Kimberly Nichols, Debora Silverman, Anna Swimbourne, and Sabine Taevernier, with a forward by Herwig Todts, \"James Ensor: The Temptation of Saint Anthony\" (Art Institute of Chicago, 2014).  https:\/\/publications.artic.edu\/ensor\/reader\/temptationstanthony; Accessed August 2015, Section 236, fig. 1 (ill.).","exhibition_history":"The Art Institute of Chicago, \"Exhibition of 19 charcoals owned by Jean Goriany [or Henri Petiet] made for Flaubert's The Temptation of Saint Anthony,\" August, 1941.\n\nNew York, The Museum of Modern Art, \"Modern Drawings,\" 1944, p. 32, cat. by Monroe Wheeler.\n\nNew York, The Museum of Modern Art, \"Redon, Drawing, and Lithographs,\" 1952, cat. 5.\n\nParis, Orangerie des Tuileries, \"Odilon Redon,\" October 1956-January 1957, cat. 22 as \"Genie sur les eaux.\"\n\nThe Hague, Gemeentemuseum,\"Odilon Redon,\" May 3- June 23, 1957, cat. 8.\n\nNew York, The Museum of Modern Art, \"Odilon Redon, Gustave Moreau, Rodolphe Bresdin,\" December 4, 1961-February 4, 1962, cat. 88; traveled to The Art Institute of Chicago, March 2-April 15, 1962.\n\nNew York, Wildenstein and Company, \"Master Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago,\" October 17-November 30, 1963, cat. 111.\n\nSt Louis, Mo., Washington University Gallery of Art, \"Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Artists and Draughtsmen,\" March 13\u2013April 8, 1966, no cat.\n\nThe Art Institute of Chicago, \"Odilon Redon: Prince of Dreams,\"  June 9-September 18, 1994, cat. 50, cat. by Douglas Druick et al; traveled to Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum, October 20, 1994-January 15, 1995, and London, Royal Academy of Arts, February 16-May 21, 1995. \n\nParis, Mus\u00e9e du Louvre, \"La peinture comme crime ou la part maudite de la r\u00e9alit\u00e9,\" October 19, 2001-January 14, 2002.\n\nGifu, Japan, The Museum of Fine Arts, \"Odilon Redon --Le souci de l'absolu (Search for the Absolute),\"  October 8-December 8, 2002,  cat. 33; traveled to Shimane, Japan, Shimane Art Museum, August 2, 2002 -September 23, 2002.\n\nThe Art Institute of Chicago, \"Strange Realities: The Symbolist Imagination\", October 4, 2025 - January 5, 2026.","provenance_text":"Sold by the artist to Amboise Vollard (1867- 1939), Paris, December 1899 [according to Chicago 1994].  Henri Petiet (1894-1980) Paris, by March 1940 [according to Wildenstein 1992]; sold to the Art Institute, 1950.","edition":null,"publishing_verification_level":"Web Cataloged","internal_department_id":3,"fiscal_year":null,"fiscal_year_deaccession":null,"is_public_domain":true,"is_zoomable":true,"max_zoom_window_size":-1,"copyright_notice":null,"has_multimedia_resources":true,"has_educational_resources":false,"has_advanced_imaging":false,"colorfulness":49.4195,"color":{"h":30,"l":34,"s":0,"percentage":0.00011505718917587986,"population":1},"latitude":null,"longitude":null,"latlon":null,"is_on_view":false,"on_loan_display":null,"gallery_title":null,"gallery_id":null,"nomisma_id":null,"artwork_type_title":"Drawing and Watercolor","artwork_type_id":14,"department_title":"Prints and Drawings","department_id":"PC-13","artist_id":36336,"artist_title":"Odilon Redon","alt_artist_ids":[],"artist_ids":[36336],"artist_titles":["Odilon Redon"],"category_ids":["PC-13"],"category_titles":["Prints and Drawings"],"term_titles":["charcoal","scraping","Post-Impressionism","mysteries\/fantasies","paper (fiber product)","charcoal","wove paper","black chalk","chalk","white chalk","erasing","stumping","drawing techniques","drawings (visual works)","prints and drawing","water","paper"],"style_id":"TM-7547","style_title":"Post-Impressionism","alt_style_ids":[],"style_ids":["TM-7547"],"style_titles":["Post-Impressionism"],"classification_id":"TM-218","classification_title":"charcoal","alt_classification_ids":["TM-5","TM-4","TM-145"],"classification_ids":["TM-218","TM-5","TM-4","TM-145"],"classification_titles":["charcoal","drawings (visual works)","prints and drawing","paper"],"subject_id":"TM-10184","alt_subject_ids":["TM-8681"],"subject_ids":["TM-10184","TM-8681"],"subject_titles":["mysteries\/fantasies","water"],"material_id":"TM-2982","alt_material_ids":["TM-2411","TM-3074","TM-2414","TM-3782","TM-2416"],"material_ids":["TM-2982","TM-2411","TM-3074","TM-2414","TM-3782","TM-2416"],"material_titles":["paper (fiber product)","charcoal","wove paper","black chalk","chalk","white chalk"],"technique_id":"TM-3852","alt_technique_ids":["TM-3853","TM-3854","TM-3968"],"technique_ids":["TM-3852","TM-3853","TM-3854","TM-3968"],"technique_titles":["scraping","erasing","stumping","drawing techniques"],"theme_titles":[],"image_id":"d2905eaf-73c2-7796-5121-54600b4b2df4","alt_image_ids":[],"document_ids":[],"sound_ids":[],"video_ids":[],"text_ids":[],"section_ids":[107189],"section_titles":["Folio 2B\/C"],"site_ids":[],"suggest_autocomplete_all":[{"input":["1950.1428"],"contexts":{"groupings":["accession"]}},{"input":["Guardian Spirit of the Waters"],"weight":4370,"contexts":{"groupings":["title"]}}],"source_updated_at":"2026-01-06T14:48:58-06:00","updated_at":"2026-09-25T13:34:08-05:00","timestamp":"2026-09-26T12:57:25-05:00"},"info":{"license_text":"The `description` field in this response is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Generic License (CC-By) and the Terms and Conditions of artic.edu. 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