Odilon Redon

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Odilon Redon
1840-1916
Lady Macbeth (Priestess of Egypt)
ca. 1896
Charcoal and black fabricated chalk on light brown paper.
19 1/2 x 12 1/8 inches (495 x 307 mm); in decorative frame: 31 3/4 x 24 1/2 x 1 3/4 inches
Thaw Collection.
2017.206

Inscription: 

Signed at lower left: "Odilon Redon".

Provenance: 
Baron Robert de Domècy, Sermicelles, near Vézlay, April 1896 (according to Redon's account book as "Un dessin prêtesse égyptien, rigide avec un blambeau devant elle [elle fut exposé sous le titre Lady Macbeth]"); The Artemis Group, London; Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw, New York.
Associated names: 

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Macbeth
Domècy, Robert de, Baron, former owner.
Thaw, Eugene Victor, former owner.
Thaw, Clare, former owner.

Bibliography: 

Thaw Catalogue Raisonné, 2017, no. 316, repr.
The Thaw Collection : Master Drawings and Oil Sketches : Acquisitions since 1994. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 2002, no. 48.

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