Artwork Details
Artist
Creation Date
Materials
Object Types
Dimensions
25-1/4 x 19-3/4 in. (canvas) 34-1/2 x 29 in. (framed, glazed)
Mark Description
Signed in red paint, lower left: Odilon Redon
Accession Number
Credit Line
The Lockton Collection
Copyright
Collection
European Painting and Sculpture 1800-1945
Color Palette
Provenance
Louis Bernard, Paris, France; purchased by (Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, France) in 1916. (Lefebvre Gallery, London, England) about 1926. (Galeries Etienne Bignou, Paris, France) by 1929.{1} M. B. Sanders, New York, New York by 1931.{2} (Paul Kantor Gallery, Los Angeles, California) around 1946.{3} Mr. and Mrs. Lazarus Phillips, Montreal, Québec, by 1961;{4} by descent to Neil F. Phillips and Ivan E. Phillips, Montreal, Québec; Sale (Parke-Bernet, New York, New York) in 1965.{5} Mr. and Mrs. Richard C. Lockton, Indianapolis, Indiana; given to Indianapolis Museum of Art in 1970. {1} The early provenance is given in Alec Wildenstein, Odilon Redon: catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint et dessiné, Paris, volume 1, 1992, catalogue no. 315 (illustration) Bignou is given as the owner in Charles Fegdal, Odilon Redon, Paris, 1929, no. 49 (illustration) {2} M. B. Sanders, Jr. (probably the architect Morris B. Sanders [1904-1948]) , lent this painting to the exhibition Lautrec-Redon, Museum of Modern Art, New York, Tenth Loan Exhibition, 1 February - 2 March, 1931, catalogue no. 91 (illustration) {3} As cited in Wildenstein catalogue raisonné, catalogue no. 315. {4} Included in exhibition Odilon Redon, Gustave Moreau, Rodolphe Bresdin, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1961, catalogue no. 24. {5} Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, Highly important Impressionist and Modern Paintings and Drawings, 14 October 1965, lot 95 (illustration)
Gallery Labels
The Gothic Window is one of many images Redon painted of profile figures with flowers. The woman embodies his conception of spiritual life and suggests a meditative state often found in Symbolist painting.
Eastern schools of thought also influenced Redon, and the floating cluster of flowers may be intended as Buddhist symbols of pure spirit and beauty. Perhaps the flowers are also a substitute for the brilliant color common to Gothic stained glass windows.
Redon's method of painting on unprimed canvas in strokes of dry pigment and patches of pure color gives this work the immediacy of a pastel drawing.
Exhibition History
Exhibition Name
Venue
Dates
Lost Paradise: Symbolist Europe
Montréal Museum of Fine Arts
June 8, 1995 - October 15, 1995
Indianapolis Museum of Art
October 18, 1972 - December 10, 1972
Redon, Moreau, Bresdin
The Museum of Modern Art
December 6, 1961 - February 25, 1962
Lautrec-Redon
The Museum of Modern Art
1931 - 1931
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