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We look across an ochre-yellow field to a band of pearl-white buildings under an azure-blue sky in this horizontal landscape painting. Flecks of red in the lower right corner could be flowers. Some of the buildings have tan or silvery-gray roofs, and the faces are in blue shadow. The horizon comes about halfway up the composition, and a few round white clouds trundle across the vivid blue sky. The scene is painted with visible, textured brushstrokes throughout. The artist signed the lower left corner, “ODILON REDON.”

Odilon Redon

Breton Village, c. 1890

West Building, Main Floor — Gallery 91

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 22.5 x 32.5 cm (8 7/8 x 12 13/16 in.)

framed: 31.9 x 41.9 x 3.5 cm (12 9/16 x 16 1/2 x 1 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon

Accession Number

1994.59.11

Artists / Makers

Odilon Redon (painter) French, 1840 - 1916

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Inscription

lower left, in red and purple paint: ODILON REDON.

Provenance

Simone Deluy, France; sold 1958 to (Wildenstein & Co., New York);[1] sold November 1969 to Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, Upperville, VA; gift 1994 to NGA.

[1] Wildenstein's acquisition date and source according to letter dated 14 December 1998, in NGA curatorial files.

Associated Names

Deluy, Simone
Mellon, Paul
Wildenstein & Co., Inc.

Exhibition History

2013: Intimate Impressionism from the National Gallery of Art, Museo dell'Ara Pacis Augustae, Rome (exhibition title in this venue: Impressionist Gems); California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco; McNay Art Museum, San Antonio; Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum, Tokyo, Seattle Art Museum, 2013-2016..