Symbolic Head

[{'description': 'Possibly Gustave Fayet [1865-1925], Béziers', 'citations': [], 'footnotes': ['The Wildenstein catalogue raisonné of Redon’s oeuvre lists “Gustave Fayet?” as the first owner of the CMA picture.  In 1980 Fayet, a painter who worked in a style similar to that of Redon, purchased the Abbe de Fontfroide, where he exhibited works from his collection, including Redon’s Day and Night.  The reasons for Wildenstein’s uncertainty concerning Fayet are unknown: it may be because there was little or no evidence that the CMA painting was present in the Abbe de Fontfroide, even though other works by Redon were know to have been displayed, or because Jacques Dubourg purchased other works from Fayet’s collection, but this possibility, too, was unsubstantiated.  '], 'date': 'Before 1925', 'sortorder': 1}, {'description': '(Jacques Dubourg [1897-1981], Paris, sold to Knoedler & Co.)', 'citations': [], 'footnotes': ["Dubourg, an art dealer, sold the Redon to Knoedler & Co. on October 20, 1954.  The circumstances of Dubourg’s acquisition of the Redon are unknown.  It is possible that like a Redon pastel currently in the MFA Boston (64.2206), Symbolic Head was purchased by Dubourg from Fayet’s collection.  The MFA pastel may have been sold by Fayet’s son-in-law, Paul Bacou, directly to Dubourg, as that work was lent to an exhibition in 1938 by Bacou.  He may have had it in his possession by 1951, when was listed as the lender of a painting titled “Jeune Homme en Buste” to an exhibition at the Hôtel de Ville de Rennes, Les origines de l'art contemporain.  The dimensions of that work (51 x 39 cm) are very close to those of Symbolic Head (53 x 38 cm); however, the catalogue notes that it is signed in the lower right, while the Cleveland picture is signed in the lower left, although it possibly that this was recorded incorrectly.  "], 'date': 'Until 1954', 'sortorder': 2}, {'description': '(Knoedler & Co., New York, sold to Mildred Andrews Putnam)', 'citations': [], 'footnotes': ['Knoedler sold the Redon (stock number A5851) to Mildred Andrews Putnam on February 20, 1956.'], 'date': '1954-1956', 'sortorder': 3}, {'description': 'Mildred Andrews Putnam [1890/92-1984], Cleveland, OH, by descent to her son, Peter Andrews Putnam', 'citations': [], 'footnotes': None, 'date': '1956-1984', 'sortorder': 4}, {'description': 'Peter Andrews Putnam [1925-1987], Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art', 'citations': [], 'footnotes': ['At the time of Putnam’s death on December 7, 1987, the Redon, along with four other paintings and two drawings, had been on loan to CMA.  After his death, these artworks were distributed from his estate and then given permanently to the Museum in the name of his mother’s fund.  '], 'date': '1984-1987', 'sortorder': 5}, {'description': 'The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH', 'citations': [], 'footnotes': None, 'date': '1988-', 'sortorder': 6}]

{'current': [{'id': 310246, 'title': 'The Year in Review for 1988', 'description': 'The Year in Review for 1988. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 1-May 14, 1989).', 'opening_date': '1989-03-01T05:00:00'}, {'id': 215330, 'title': "Odilon Redon - Le souci de l'absolu (Search for the Absolute)", 'description': "Odilon Redon - Le souci de l'absolu (Search for the Absolute). Shimane Art Museum, Matsue-shi, Japan (August 2-September 23, 2002); Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu, Gifu City, Japan (organizer) (October 8-December 8, 2002).", 'opening_date': '2002-08-02T00:00:00'}], 'legacy': [{'description': "Les origines de l'art contemporain. Hôtel de Ville de Rennes, Le Mans, France (1951).", 'opening_date': '1951-01-01T00:00:00'}, {'description': 'If Wishes Could Buy. Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD (1955).', 'opening_date': '1955-01-01T00:00:00'}, {'description': 'The Logic of Modern Art: An Exhibition Tracing the Evolution of Modern Painting from from Cézanne to 1960. Nelson Gallery and Atkins Museum, Kansas City, MO (1961).', 'opening_date': '1961-01-01T00:00:00'}, {'description': 'Odilon Redon, Gustave Moreau, Rodolphe Bresdin. Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (1961-62).', 'opening_date': '1961-01-01T00:00:00'}]}