The Thinker at the Window, Drawing in the manner of Goya
Odilon Redon (1840 - 1916), 1878
charcoal on paper, 44.9 cm x 33.9 cm
Credits (obliged to state): Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation)
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- Object number
- d1048V1996
- Dimensions
- 44.9 cm x 33.9 cm, 84 cm x 69 cm
- Provenance
- Sold by the artist, Paris to Edmond Picard, Brussels, 7 December 1889; consigned by Edmond Picard to auction Brussels, Galerie J. & A. Le Roy frères (Collection de tableaux anciens et modernes, aquarelles, dessins, eaux-fortes, lithographies de M. Edmond Picard), lot 94 (Le Penseur au vitrail), purchased by Andries Bonger, Amsterdam for FRF 115, 26 March 1904; after his death on 20 January 1936 inherited by his widow, Françoise W.M. Bonger-van der Borch van Verwolde, Amsterdam; after her death in 1975 bequeathed to her heirs, the Netherlands; sold by these heirs to the Vincent van Gogh Foundation, Amsterdam, 1996; since then on permanent loan to the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam.
- artist
- Odilon Redon
- Credits (obliged to state)
- Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation)
Madrid, Fundación MAPFRE, Odilon Redon, 11 February-29 April 2012
Milwaukee, Milwaukee Art Museum, Impressionism: Masterworks on Paper, 14 October 2011-8 January 2012
Frankfurt am Main, Schirn Kunsthalle, Wie im Traum: Odilon Redon, 26 January-29 April 2007
Shimane Art Museum, Odilon Redon : le souci de l'absolu, 2 August-23 September 2002
Gifu, Museum of Fine Arts Gifu, Odilon Redon : le souci de l'absolu, 8 October-8 December 2002
Tokyo, Seiji Togo Memorial Yasuda Kasai Museum of Art, Vincent van Gogh drawing exhibition. Van Gogh and his time from the Van Gogh Museum and the H.W. Mesdag Museum, 14 September-13 November 2000
Groot, I.M. de, André Bonger en zijn kunstenaarsvrienden Redon, Bernard, Van Gogh, 1972, p. 27
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Leeuw, Ronald de, Tilborgh, Louis van, Esner, Rachel, Becker, Edwin, Blühm, Andreas, Heugten, Sjraar van, Van Gogh Museum Journal 1996, 1997, p. 206-207
Heugten, Sjraar van, Leighton, John, Senzoku, Nobuyuki, Vincent van Gogh drawing exhibition : Van Gogh and his time from the Van Gogh Museum and the H.W. Mesdag Museum, 2000, p. 154-155, 193
Leeman, Fred, Roos Rosa de Carvalho, Fleur, Vergeest, Aukje, Stolwijk, Chris, Odilon Redon en Emile Bernard : meesterwerken uit de collectie van Andries Bonger, 2009, p. 88, 129
Leeman, Fred, Roos Rosa de Carvalho, Fleur, Vergeest, Aukje, Stolwijk, Chris, Odilon Redon and Emile Bernard : masterpieces from the Andries Bonger collection, 2009, p. 88, 129
Bacou, Roseline, Redon, Odilon, Lettres de Gauguin, Gide, Huysmans, Jammes, Mallarmé, Verhaeren à Odilon Redon, 1960, pp. 150-151
Rapetti, Rodolphe, Gamboni, Dario, Salé, Marie-Pierre, Leeman, Fred, Odilon Redon : prince du rêve : 1840-1916, 2011
Bacou, Roseline, Odilon Redon, 1956, vol. 1, note 1 on p. 71
Berger, K., Odilon Redon : Phantasie und Farbe, 1964, p. 226
Chaban-Delmas, J., Coustet, Robert, Huyghe, René, Martin-Méry, G., Odilon Redon 1840-1916, 1985, pp. 78-80
Vialla, J., La vie et l'oeuvre d'Odilon Redon, cop. 1988, p. 70
Decroocq, M.-C., Lacau St. Guily, A., Wildenstein, Alec, Odilon Redon : catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint et dessiné, 1992-1998, vol. 2, pp. 158-159
Berson, R., The new painting : impressionism 1874-1886 : documentation, 1996, vol. 2, pp. 250, 274
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