Concern for the Absolute
1891
charcoal and fixative on paper
Credits: Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (State of the Netherlands)
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- Object number
- d1057N1996
- Dimensions
- 44.7 x 37
- Provenance
- Sold by the artist, Paris to Andries Bonger, Amsterdam, June 1901; 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 State of the Netherlands to be placed in the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, 18 December 1996.
- Credits
- Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (State of the Netherlands)
Madrid, Fundación MAPFRE, Odilon Redon, 11 February-29 April 2012, no. 62
Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum, Odilon Redon en Emile Bernard. Meesterwerken uit de collectie van Andries Bonger, 10 April-20 September 2009, no. 164
Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum, De Bonger collectie. Werken van Odilon Redon en Emile Bernard, 2 July-31 October 2004
Gifu, Museum of Fine Arts Gifu, Odilon Redon : le souci de l'absolu, 8 October-8 December 2002, no. 133
Shimane Art Museum, Odilon Redon : le souci de l'absolu, 2 August-23 September 2002, no. 133
Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, André Bonger en zijn kunstenaarsvrienden: Redon, Bernard, Van Gogh, 6 June-6 August 1972, no. 41
Venice, XXXIe Biënnale, June 1962, no. 47
Bern, Kunsthalle Bern, Odilon Redon, 9 August-12 October 1958, no. 46
The Hague, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, Odilon Redon, 3 May-23 June 1957, no. 25
Paris, Musée de l'Orangerie, Odilon Redon, October 1956-January 1957, no. 44
Arnhem, Vereeniging voor Beeldende Kunst (Arnhem), Tentoonstelling van Odilon Redon: Schilderijen, tekeningen, litho’s, 26 March-4 April 1948, no. 8
Paris, Musée des Arts Décoratifs (Paris), Odilon Redon: Exposition rétrospective de son oeuvre, March 1926, no. 181
Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Moderne Kunst Kring, 6 October-5 November 1911, no. 109
Amsterdam, Larensche Kunsthandel, Catalogus der tentoonstelling van werken van Odilon Redon (alles particulier bezit), 7-14 May 1909, no. 57
Rotterdam, Kunstzalen Reckers, Exposition de peintures, dessins, lithographies par Odilon Redon, May 1907, no. 28
« Sans adieu » : Andries Bonger – Odilon Redon : correspondance 1894-1916, Paris, 2022
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