Saint Sebastian

Odilon Redon1910/1912

Details

Title: Saint Sebastian
Creator: Odilon Redon
Date Created: 1910/1912
Physical Dimensions: overall: 144 x 62.5 cm (56 11/16 x 24 5/8 in.) framed: 165.7 x 84.8 cm (65 1/4 x 33 3/8 in.)
Provenance: Jules Chavasse, Paris; (his sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 22 June 1922, no. 25, repro.). (Reinhardt Galleries, New York); probably by whom sold by 1928 to Mrs. Lotus Robb Smith, New York, until at least 1931;[1] Sold 1937 by an anonymous collector to (Julius H. Weitzner [1896-1986], London and New York);[2] sold 20 October 1950 to Chester Dale [1882-1962], New York; gift 1963 to NGA. [1]Exhibited at De Hauke and Co., New York, in 1928, on loan from Mrs. Lotus Robb Smith, possibly through Reinhardt gallery. See de Hauke records in Seligmann papers at Archives of American Art, boxes 386 and 406 (copies NGA curatorial files). Published in Robb's collection in _Parnassus_, March 1931. [2]See Weitzner receipt dated 20 October 1950 in NGA curatorial files. The anonymous collector who sold Weitzner the painting is almost certainly Mr. Smith, whom Lotus Robb divorced c. 1937. She later married Mr. Marvin Ross, who detailed how she returned the paintings to her former husband when they divorced, and he immediately sold them; see note by David Rust dated January 1965 in NGA curatorial files.
Rights: CC0
Medium: oil on canvas

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