The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of April 17, 2024

Violette Heymann

1910

Odilon Redon

(French, 1840–1916)

France, early 20th Century

pastel on gray wove paper

Unframed: 72 x 92 cm (28 3/8 x 36 1/4 in.)

Hinman B. Hurlbut Collection 1926.1976

Catalogue raisonné: Wildenstein 96

Location: not on view

Did You Know?

This pastel was acquired by the Cleveland Museum of Art in the same year as several other works by Redon, leading arts writers to describe Cleveland as holding the most important works by the artist outside of Paris at the time.

Description

Although he was known early in his career for works primarily in black and white, such as charcoal drawings and lithographs, Odilon Redon turned to more colorful media, including pastel, later on. In particular, he focused on commissioned pastel portraits of women with flowers, such as this one. Here, the young niece of the Parisian collector Marcel Kapferer appears alongside colorful blossoms as she looks forward, focused as if in the dreamlike state evoked by her surroundings.

by 1910-1926
Marcel Kapferer [1872-1966], Paris
1926
(Kraushaar Gallery, New York, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH)
1926-
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Exposition Annuelle, 1er Groupe. Exh. Cat. Paris: Galerie E. Druet, 1910. Mentioned: no. 27
Salmon, André. "Odilon Redon." L'Art décoratif 15, no. 1 (1913): 5-21. Reproduced: p. 19
Exposition rétrospective d'oeuvres d'Odilon Redon (1840-1916). Exh. Cat. Paris: Galerie Barbazanges, 1920. Mentioned: no. 124
Mellerio, André. "Odilon Redon (1840-1916)." Gazette des Beaux-Arts 62 (1920): 137-156. Mentioned: p. 152
Rey, Robert. "Odilon Redon." Art et Decoration 38, no. 224 (1920): 36-45. Reproduced: p. 43
Mellerio, André. Odilon Redon: peintre, dessinateur et graveur. Paris: H. Floury, 1923. Mentioned: p. 136; Reproduced: opposite p. 88
Furst, Herbert. "Paintings and Pastels by Odilon Redon at the Léfèvre Galleries, King Street." Apollo 4, no. 19 (July 1926): 46. Mentioned: p. 46
Odilon Redon, exposition rétrospective de son oeuvre. Exh. Cat. Paris: Musée des arts décoratifs, 1926. Mentioned: p. 17, no. 137
Karr, Benjamin. "Notable Painting Added to Art Museum's Display." Cleveland News (December 19, 1926): n.p. Mentioned and reproduced.
Glasier, Jessie C. "Museum Gets Another French Canvas." Cleveland Plain Dealer (December 19, 1926): n.p. Mentioned.
Paintings and Pastels by Odilon Redon. Exh. Cat. London: Lefèvre Galleries, 1926. Mentioned: no. 13
"Cleveland Museum Buys a Redon." The Art News (January 1, 1927): 1-2. Mentioned: pp. 1-2
W.M.M. "'Portrait of Mademoiselle Violette H.' by Odilon Redon." Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 14, no. 3 (March 1927): 41, 47. Mentioned: p. 41; Reproduced p. 47
The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1928. Reproduced: p. 39 archive.org
Dorival, Bernard. La Peinture française. Paris: Larousse, 1942. Reproduced: opposite p. 105
Jewell, Edward Alden and Aimée Crane. French Impressionists and their Contemporaries Represented in American Collections. New York: Hyperion Press, 1944. Reproduced: p. 129
Paintings in the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1945. Reproduced: p. 39 archive.org
Bazin, Germain. History of Modern Painting. Trans. Rosamund Frost (New York: Hyperion Press, 1951. Reproduced: p. 77
Hartlaub, G.F. Impressionists in France. Milan: Uffici Press, 1951. Reproduced: p. 35
Odilon Redon, 1840-1916. Exh. Cat. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1951. Mentioned and reproduced: no. 16
Seligman, Germain. Oh! Fickle Taste: Objectivity in Art. New York: B. Wheelwright, 1952. Reproduced: p. 51
Berger, Klaus. "The Pastels of Odilon Redon." College Art Journal 16, no. 1 (Autumn 1956): 23-33. Mentioned: p. 28
Rewald, John. Post-Impressionism from Van Gogh to Gauguin. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1956. Reproduced: p. 179
Colombo, Alfredo and Gaston Diehl. Treasury of World Painting. New York: Tudor, 1960. Reproduced: p. 65
Awazu, Norio. "Redon's Letters: Letters to Redon (IV)." Mizue, no. 721 (March 1965): 73-77. Reproduced: p. 76
Berger, Klaus. Odilon Redon: Fantasy and Colour. Trans. Michael Bullock. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1965. Mentioned: p. 212, no. 406
The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. Reproduced: p. 180 archive.org
I Maestri del Colore: Redon. Milan: Fratelli Fabbri, 1966. Mentioned and reproduced: no. VI-VII
The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. Reproduced: p. 180 archive.org
Selz, Jean. Odilon Redon. Lugano: Uffici Press, 1971. Mentioned: p. 81
Praeger Encyclopedia of Art. London: Praeger, 1971. Mentioned: vol. 4, p. 1667; Reproduced: vol. 4, p. 1666
Preston, Stuart. Edouard Vuillard. New York: Harry Abrams, 1971. Reproduced: p. 23
Cassou, Jean. Odilon Redon. Milan: Fratelli Fabbri, 1972. Reproduced: pp. 16-17.
Die Grosse Enzyklopadie der Malerei. Freiburg: Herder, 1975. Reproduced: p. 2648
Hobbs, Richard. Odilon Redon. London: Studio Vista, 1977. Mentioned: p. 139; Reproduced: p. 141
The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 224 archive.org
Phaidon Encyclopedia of Art and Artists. Oxford: Phaidon, 1978. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 544
Wilson, Michael. Nature and Imagination: The Work of Odilon Redon. Oxford: Phaidon, 1978. Mentioned: p. 66; Reproduced: p. 67
Bacou, Roseline. Odilon Redon: Pastels. Trans. Beatrice Rehl. New York: George Braziller, 1987. Mentioned: p. 126, no. 43; Reproduced: p. 127
Vialla, Jean. La vie et l'oeuvre d'Odilon Redon. Paris: ACR, 1988. Mentioned: pp. 140-141
Fugazza, Stefano. Simbolismo. Milan: Arnoldo Mondadori Arte, 1991. Reproduced: p. 104
Wildenstein, Alec. Odilon Redon, catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint et dessiné. Paris: Wildenstein Institute, 1992. Mentioned and reproduced: vol. I, p. 50, no. 96
Jarrassé, Dominique. Odilon Redon, le rêve. Paris: Herscher, 1996. Mentioned: p. 42; Reproduced: p. 43
Impressionist, Modern and Contemporary Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture and Ceramics. London: Christie's, 1996. Mentioned: p. 26, lot 53
Takashina, Shuji and Nobuyuki Senzoku. Seikimatsu to shocho shugi, New World History of Art. Tokyo: Shogakukan, 1996. Reproduced: p. 85
Humair, Sylviane. "De la fin du XIXe siècle au début du XXe." Gazette de l'Hotel Drouot (April 17, 1998): 72-74. Mentioned: p. 73
300 Selected European Paintings. Otsuka: Otsuka Museum of Art, 1998. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 314
Impressionist and Modern Art. London: Sotheby's, 1999. Mentioned: p. 17, lot 20
De Grazia, Diane. "Drawings in Cleveland: The Evolution of a Collection." In Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1-15. Diane De Grazia and Carter E. Foster, eds. Exh. Cat. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art in Association with Rizzoli International Publications, New York, 2000. Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 11-12, fig. 11
DeGrazia, Diane and Carter E. Foster. Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art in association with Rizzoli International Publications, New York, 2000. Mentioned and Reproduced: P. 11-12, fig. 11
Masini, Lara Vinca and Alessandro Vezzosi. Il Liberty, Art Nouveau. Firenze: Giunti, 2000. Reproduced: p. 83
Shimizu, Yoshiro. Redon, Moro. Tokyo: Shogakkan, 2000. Reproduced: p. 12
Sugu wakaru gakabetsu genso bijutsu no mikata. Tokyo: Tokyobijutsu, 2004. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 57
Lemonedes, Heather, "Unparalleled Color", Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine. Vol. 47 no. 10, December 2007 Mentioned & reproduced: p. 4 archive.org
Yamamoto, Atsuko. Redon, His Life and Works: I Want to Know More. Tokyo: Bijutsu, 2011. Mentioned: p. 66; Reproduced: p. 67
De Seta, Cesare. Arti Della Modernità. Milano: Jaca Book, 2021. Reproduced: P. 194-195
“The Legacy of Odilon Redon at the CMA.” Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine 61, no. 3 (Summer 2021): 37. Reproduced and Mentioned: P. 37.
Collecting Dreams: Odilon Redon. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 19, 2021-January 23, 2022).
Pure Color: Pastels from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 19, 2016-March 19, 2017).
Imagining the Garden. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 24, 2015-March 6, 2016).
Monet to Dalí: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 21, 2007-January 13, 2008).
Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 27-October 17, 2000).
Odilon Redon: Dream Creatures and Anemones. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 21-October 14, 1984).
Horticulture Motifs in Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (March 9-April 24, 1955).
Odilon Redon (1840-1916): Pastels and Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (November 29, 1951-January 20, 1952); Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN (February 1-March 1, 1952).
Exhibition of the Month: The Floral Motif in Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 29-September 30, 1947).
19th and 20th Century French Art and Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Loans. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 22-September 1, 1943).
The Silver Jubilee Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 23-September 28, 1941).
French Art Since Eighteen Hundred. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 8-December 8, 1929).
Fifty Years of French Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 29 - November 28, 1926).
Paintings and Pastels by Odilon Redon. Lefèvre Galleries, London (June - July 1926).
Odilon Redon: Exposition rétrospective de son oeuvre. Musée des arts décoratifs, Paris (March 1926).
Exposition rétrospective d'oeuvres d'Odilon Redon (1840-1916). Galerie Barbazanges, Paris (May - June 1920).
Exposition annuelle, 1er groupe. Galerie E. Druet, Paris (December 4 - 17, 1910).
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