Primitive Man

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Maker: Odilon Redon, French, 1840-1916
Date: 1872
Medium: Various charcoals, with touches of black chalk, stumping, wiping and erasing, heightened with touches of white and ocher gouache, on cream wove paper altered to a pale, golden tone
Dimensions: 39.3 × 33.8 cm (15 1/2 × 13 5/16 in.)
Place of origin: France
Held by: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago · Not on view
Credit line: Through prior bequest of Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson

Image: Art Institute of Chicago, CC0

Adjust the guideNew to it · Medium

The museum has published too little about this work for a guide to be written.

Maker: Odilon Redon, French, 1840-1916
Date: 1872
Medium: Various charcoals, with touches of black chalk, stumping, wiping and erasing, heightened with touches of white and ocher gouache, on cream wove paper altered to a pale, golden tone
Dimensions: 39.3 × 33.8 cm (15 1/2 × 13 5/16 in.)
Place of origin: France
Held by: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago · Not on view
Credit line: Through prior bequest of Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson

Image: Art Institute of Chicago, CC0