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False Glory

Odilon RedonLinkedCulture matchlcp-705b43b6c7d9

Date: c. 1885
Medium: Various charcoals, with incising, stumping, wiping, erasing, and subtractive brushwork, on pale-pink wove paper altered to a pale, golden tone
Culture: France
Department: Prints and Drawings
Institution: Art Institute of Chicago
Object ID: 144358

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This eerie drawing may have had familial ramifications. In the 1880s Redon’s younger brother, Gaston, won the coveted Prix de Rome in architecture, which may have rekindled a kind of sibling rivalry and increased the artist’s own feelings of inadequacy. Reiterating a motif that he had used before, Redon seems to have included a solar eclipse in one of the eyes of the laurel-wreathed bust’s masklike face.

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Credit line: Through prior acquisitions of the David Adler Memorial Fund
Provenance: Baron Robert de Domecy, Sermizelles, France [Chicago 1994]. Private collection, to at least 1995 [Chicago 1994]. Sold by Michael Altman, New York, to the Art Institute, 1996.

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Object type: AAT300033973

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