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Odilon Redon,\" 1882.\n\nParis, Mus\u00e9e des Arts Decoratifs, \"Odilon Redon, Exposition R\u00e9trospective de son oeuvre,\" March 1926, cat. 235.\n\nNew York, The Museum of Modern Art, \"Redon, Drawings and Lithographs,\" 1952, cat. 7.\n\nPalm Beach, Fla. Society of the Four Arts, \"Odilon Redon,\" 1955, cat. 45.\n\nNew York, The Museum of Modern Art, \"Odilon Redon, Gustave Moreau, Rodolphe Bresdin,\" December 4, 1961-February 4, 1962, cat. 107; traveled to The Art Institute of Chicago, March 2-April 15, 1962.\n\nThe Art Institute of Chicago, \"Odilon Redon: Prince of Dreams,\" June 9-September 18, 1994, cat. 55, cat. by Douglas Druick et al; traveled to Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum, October 20, 1994-January 15, 1995; and London, the Royal Academy of Arts, February 16-May 21, 1995. \n\nGifu, Japan, The Museum of Fine Arts, \"Odilon Redon --Le souci de l'absolu (Search for the Absolute),\" October 8, 2002-December 8, 2002, cat. 47; traveled to Shimane, Japan, Shimane Art Museum, August 2, 2002-September 23, 2002.\n\nNew York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Art Institute of Chicago, \"C\u00e9zanne to Picasso: Ambroise Vollard, Patron of the Avant-Garde,\" 2006-2007; shown at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, September 14, 2006-January 7, 2007, and The Art Institute of Chicago, February 17-May 13, 2007.\n\nThe Art Institute of Chicago, \"Strange Realities: The Symbolist Imagination\", October 4, 2025 - January 5, 2026.","provenance_text":"Sold by the artist to Ambroise Vollard (1867-1939), Paris, December 30, 1897.  Henri Petiet (1894-1980), Paris, 1940; sold to the Art Institute, 1950.","edition":null,"publishing_verification_level":"Web Cataloged","internal_department_id":3,"fiscal_year":1951,"fiscal_year_deaccession":null,"is_public_domain":true,"is_zoomable":true,"max_zoom_window_size":-1,"copyright_notice":null,"has_multimedia_resources":false,"has_educational_resources":false,"has_advanced_imaging":false,"colorfulness":0,"color":null,"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)","Cont\u00e9 crayon (TM)","charcoal","wove paper","black chalk","chalk","erasing","stumping","drawing techniques","drawings (visual works)","prints and drawing","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":[],"subject_ids":["TM-10184"],"subject_titles":["mysteries\/fantasies"],"material_id":"TM-2982","alt_material_ids":["TM-2449","TM-2411","TM-3074","TM-2414","TM-3782"],"material_ids":["TM-2982","TM-2449","TM-2411","TM-3074","TM-2414","TM-3782"],"material_titles":["paper (fiber product)","Cont\u00e9 crayon (TM)","charcoal","wove paper","black chalk","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":"0b23bfee-7ae2-da77-50cf-897af2483aa2","alt_image_ids":[],"document_ids":[],"sound_ids":[],"video_ids":[],"text_ids":[],"section_ids":[],"section_titles":[],"site_ids":[],"suggest_autocomplete_all":[{"input":["1950.1433"],"contexts":{"groupings":["accession"]}},{"input":["Strange Flower (Little Sister of the Poor)"],"weight":1447,"contexts":{"groupings":["title"]}}],"source_updated_at":"2026-01-06T15:14:30-06:00","updated_at":"2026-03-03T05:48:34-06:00","timestamp":"2026-09-26T12:57:30-05:00"},"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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