Winged Horse

Original Language TitleCheval Ailé

Series TitleLa Revue blanche

Artist Odilon Redon (French, 1840 - 1916)

Date1894

MediumLithograph on Chine applique

DimensionsImage: 6 3/16 × 4 5/8 inches (15.8 × 11.75 cm)
Sheet: 7 7/8 × 5 3/4 inches (20 × 14.61 cm)

Credit LineBequest of Mrs. Peter T. Bohan

Object numberF83-30/22

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Exhibition History

Prints from the Collection of Mrs. Peter T. Bohan, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, June 12-July 10, 1983, no. 4, as Cheval ailé, published in La Revue blanche.

Animalia, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, December 6, 2008-June 7, 2009, no cat., as Winged Horse.

Animalia, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, February 28-June 14, 2015, no cat., as Winged Horse.

Gallery Label

Odilon Redon was fascinated by Greek mythology and particularly interested in the winged horse Pegasus, which he often treated in prints, paintings and pastels. Pegasus had been born from the severed neck of the Gorgon, Medusa. For Redon, the horse’s white form symbolized the human soul in all its noble purity. In this lithograph, he uses luminous whites and intense blacks to evoke a mysterious world of subjective, melancholic fantasy. Alongside his mythological scenes, Redon also produced large numbers of more naturalistic floral still lifes.

Provenance

Mrs. Peter T. Bohan (née Ruth A. Harris, 1891-1981), Kansas City, KS, by 1981;

Bequeathed by Bohan to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1983.

Published References

André Mellerio, Odilon Redon (New York: Da Capo Press, 1968), no. 127.

Ruth Harris Bohan, Prints from the Collection of Mrs. Peter T. Bohan, exh. cat. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1983), 3, as “Cheval ailé”, published in La Revue blanche.

George L. McKenna, Prints, 1460-1995 (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1996), 298, as Cheval ailé, published in La Revue blanche.

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