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7959 REDON, ODILON (1840-1916) "EVOCATION" Drawing: 20 1/2" x 15" Signed lower left: OdilongRedon This mystic composition shows a design in the shape of a vase, crowned with the head of a girl surrounded by a large fan-like halo. Against this a large feather is propped. All this is in black against a pink background and on a not so dark black floor. Collection: Ambroise Vollard Exhibited: "Redon Exhibition", Jacques Seligmann & Co. NY., Oct. 22-Nove. 10, 1951. travelled to:-Cleveland Museum of Art, Nov. 29, 1951-Jan. 20, 1952 & Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minn. Feb. 1-March 1, 1952 No. 32 of joint catalogue and reproduction. Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama Oct. 4-Nov. 1, 1952 "Visionaries and Dreamers", Corcoran Gallery, Washington D.C., Apr. 7-May 27, 1956 No. 66 Houston, Contemporary Arts Museum, "The Magical Words of Redon, Kless, Baziotes", Jan. 24-Feb. 17, 1957 Note: Mr. John Rewald, in an article in the Gazette des Beaux-Arts ("Quelques Notes et Documents sur Odilon redon", Nov. 1956, pp. 81-124), discusses some relation between Redon and Surrealists paintings: "But while (with the Surrealists) the bizarre is most often thought out, in (Redon) is is always seen, and while the art of the Surrealists is frequently descriptive and even purely literary, that of Redon is always plastic, and in him, imagination remains subordinated to the painter's instinct. And above all, his will never yields to the unconscious". (translation, P. 124)