Cleveland Museum of Art
Pierre Bonnard
Odilon RedonLinkedCulture matchlcp-4742ddd84007
- Date
- 1902
- Medium
- lithograph
- Culture
- France, early 20th Century
- Department
- Prints
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 133109
What the image shows
A pencil sketch of a man's profile with a beard and glasses.
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From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
Later in life, Odilon Redon turned to portraiture, creating likenesses of both commissioned sitters and his close friends. This print represents a figure central to his artistic and social milieu: Pierre Bonnard was a younger artist who admired Redon’s emphasis on interior states. Redon depicted only the head and profile of his subject, sketching Bonnard with fine and delicate detail. He produced just a small number of impressions of the lithograph, accentuating its personal and intimate theme. Pierre Bonnard once said of Redon: “All of our generation fell under his charm and received his advice.”
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- Credit line
- Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland
- Provenance
- ?-1955: (Ferdinand Roten, Baltimore, MD, sold to the Print Club of Cleveland, Cleveland, OH) | 1955: The Print Club of Cleveland, Cleveland, OH | 1955-: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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