Description
This page from a sketchbook relates closely to Redon’s lithograph The Player, plate 5 in his 1879 album The Dream. In his novel Against the Grain (A Rebours) of 1884, Joris-Karl Huysmans described a contemporary charcoal drawing that could have been inspired by this work: “An enormous die where a sad eyelid blinked.”
Provenance
By descent to the artist’s son, Ari Redon. Ari Redon, to 1956 [Roseline Bacou]. Sold, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, December 16, 1981, lot 52. Cazou [letter from Jeffrey Gelfand of February 20, 1997 in curatorial file]. Private Collection [letter mentioned above]. Sold by Jeffrey Gelfand, New York, to the Art Institute, 1997.
Accession Number
147063
Medium
Graphite with pen and black ink, heightened with white lead (discolored) on cream wove paper
Dimensions
17.1 × 12.7 cm (6 3/4 × 5 in.)
Classification
graphite
Credit Line
Margaret Day Blake Endowment