Evocation of Butterflies
- Date
- c. 1910/1912
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
-
21 3/4 x 16 1/4 in.
55.2 x 41.3 cm
with frame: 27 1/2 x 23 7/8 x 1 3/4 in.
69.8 x 60.6 x 4.4 cm
- Department
- European Painting
- Classification
- Paintings
- Credit
- City of Detroit Purchase
- Accession No.
- 25.201
- Provenance
- Paris, Collection Joseph Hessel from whom purchased by the DIA in 1925.
- Keywords
-
canvas, oil, paint, abstraction, animalia
Published References
New York, "International Exhibition of Modern Art", (Armory Show) Feb. 17-March 15, 1913, p. 31, cat. 277 (lent by Jos. Hessel, but possibly not the example now in Detroit)
Poland, R. E., "Two Paintings by Odilon Redon", ¦DIA Bulletin,¦ vol. 7, no. 2, 1925, pp. 21-22.
New York, De Hauke & Co., Inc., "Exhibition of Paintings, Pastels, Drawings, Water Colours, Lithographs by Odilon Redon", Nov. 1928, no. 2.
Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, "Paintings, Pastels, and Drawings by Odilon Redon 1840-1916", 1928-1929, p. 12, no. 9.
Heil, W., ¦Catalogue of Paintings in the Permanent Collection of The Detroit Institute of Arts,¦ Detroit, 1930, cat. 177, repr.
New York, Museum of Modern Art, "Tenth Loan Exhibition Lautrec Redon", Feb 1-March 2, 1931, p. 27, no. 85.
Richardson, E. P., ed. Detroit, DIA, ¦Catalogue of Paintings,¦ 1944, p. 107, no. 177.
Robb, D. M. ¦The Harper History of Painting: The Occidental Tradition,¦ New York, 1951, p. 794, fig. 435.
Bacou, R., ¦Odilon Redon,¦ Geneva, 1956, vol. 1, p. 219.
Muskegon, Hackley Art Gallery, "Old Masters of Modern Art", Oct. 6-Nov. 17, 1958.
Berkeley, University of California, Berkeley, "Art from Ingres to Pollock", March 6-April 3, 1960, pp. 24, 27, 55, repr.
New York, Museum of Modern Art--Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago; "Redon--Moreau--Bresdin," 1961-1962, pp. 43-44, 48-49, 174, no. 51 (Redon section by J. Rewald who links the DIA painting to that included in the Armory Show with a query).
Utica, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute--New York, Armory of the 69th Regiment, "1913 Armory Show 50th Anniversary Exhibition 1963", 1963, p. 201, no. 277 (¦Butterflies¦ 17 x 10 3/4 inches, lent by Sally Connor--demonstrably not the DIA picture).
Berger, Klaus, ¦Odilon Redon, Phantasie und Farbe,¦ Cologne, 1964, p. 203, no. 303 (as 1910-1912).
Wilson, M., ¦Nature and Imagination: The Work of Odilon Redon,¦ Oxford, Phaidon, 1978, p. 73, colorpl. 62 (as 1910-12).
Bordeaux, Musée des Beaux-Arts, "Homage à Odilon Redon," 1985, p. 175, no. 157, repr.
¦The Great Artists,¦ part 82, vol. 4, 1986, London, 1986, p. 2617 repr.
Tokyo, Bunkamura Museum of Art--Kyoto, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art-Ibaraki, Museum of Modern Art, "Masterpieces from The Detroit Institute of Arts", 1989/1990, pp. 94, 221, no. 62, repr.
