Museum Exhibition
Catalogue of Works
Strange Realities: The Symbolist Imagination
Art Institute of Chicago
60 documented works
Edvard Munch
The Scream
1895
Lithograph in black ink on cream card
Image: 35.5 × 25.3 cm (14 × 10 in.); Sheet: 51 × 38.5 cm (20 1/8 × 15 3/16 in.)
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Edvard Munch
Self-Portrait in Moonlight
1904–06
Woodcut printed from one block in blue and black ink on cream wove paper
Image: 75.4 × 42.3 cm (29 11/16 × 16 11/16 in.); Sheet: 80 × 57.1 cm (31 1/2 × 22 1/2 in.)
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Edvard Munch
Madonna
1895/96
Handcolored lithograph in black on mottled gray-blue wove paper (discolored to gray-green), laid down on white wove paper
Image: 60.3 × 44 cm (23 3/4 × 17 3/8 in.); Sheet: 60.7 × 44.4 cm (23 15/16 × 17 1/2 in.)
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Edvard Munch
Man's Head in Woman's Hair
1896
Color woodblock print on cream wove paper
63.5 × 48.3 cm (25 × 19 1/16 in.)
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Edvard Munch
Self-Portrait
1895
Lithograph in black on ivory Japanese paper
Image: 46.5 × 32.5 cm (18 5/16 × 12 13/16 in.); Plate: 48.2 × 36.3 cm (19 × 14 5/16 in.); Sheet: 59.7 × 44 cm (23 9/16 × 17 3/8 in.)
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Edvard Munch
Anxiety
1896
Woodcut in black ink on lightweight ivory laid proofing paper
Image: 46.3 × 37.5 cm (18 1/4 × 14 13/16 in.); Sheet: 49.1 × 39.2 cm (19 3/8 × 15 7/16 in.)
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Emilie Mediz-Pelikan
A Triple Portrait of Hermine, Emilia, and Helena
1897
Colored pencil on blue wove paper
50 × 72 cm (19 11/16 × 28 3/8 in.)
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Eugène Samuel Grasset
Morphine Addict, from The Album of Original Prints from Galerie Vollard (Morphinomaniac, from L'album d'estampes originales de la Galerie Vollard)
1897
Color lithograph on off-white wove paper
Image: 41.2 × 31 cm (16 1/4 × 12 1/4 in.); Sheet: 56.8 × 41.3 cm (22 3/8 × 16 5/16 in.)
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Félicien Rops
Frontispiece to Les baisers morts
1893
Soft varnish ("vernis mou") etching, drypoint and roulette in brownish-red on cream wove paper
Image: 10.4 × 6.6 cm (4 1/8 × 2 5/8 in.); Plate: 10.8 × 7.1 cm (4 5/16 × 2 13/16 in.); Sheet: 18.7 × 14 cm (7 3/8 × 5 9/16 in.)
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Odilon Redon
Guardian Spirit of the Waters
1878
Various charcoals, with touches of black chalk, stumping, erasing, incising, and subtractive sponge work, heightened with traces of white chalk, on cream wove paper altered to a golden tone
46.6 × 37.6 cm (18 3/8 × 14 13/16 in.)
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Félicien Rops
The Greatest Love of Don Juan
1879
Graphite with stumping, scratching and erasing on off-white wove paper, prepared with a white gouache ground (scratchboard)
25.3 × 18 cm (10 × 7 1/8 in.)
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Fernand Khnopff
The Veil
c. 1887
Charcoal and graphite with stumping on ivory wove paper, laid down on wood pulp board
40 × 21 cm (15 3/4 × 8 5/16 in.)
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Franz von Stuck
Lucifer
c. 1890
Etching on chine collé, laid down on cream laid paper
Plate: 23.9 × 21 cm (9 7/16 × 8 5/16 in.); Sheet: 50.9 × 36.3 cm (20 1/16 × 14 5/16 in.)
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Gustav Edolf Fjaestad
Moonlight, Örebro
1897
Gouache on cream wove paper, laid down onto paperboard
60.3 × 45.7 cm (23 3/4 × 18 in.)
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Gustave Moreau
Inspiration
c. 1893
Watercolor and gouache, with pen and blue ink, over traces of graphite, on ivory wove paper, wrapped and adhered on verso to wood pulp board
29.9 × 23 cm (11 13/16 × 9 1/16 in.)
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Henri de Groux
Christ Among His Tormentors
1894–98
Pastel over lithograph in black ink with additions in crayon and graphite on cream wove Canson & Montgolfier paper
58.1 × 74.7 cm (22 7/8 × 29 7/16 in.)
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Henri Martin
Silence
1894/97
Color transfer lithograph from three stones on grayish-ivory China paper
Image: 49.2 × 32.5 cm (19 3/8 × 12 13/16 in.); Sheet: 57 × 43 cm (22 1/2 × 16 15/16 in.)
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Jan Toorop
Image Design for a Poster, Wagenaar's Cantata 'The Shipwreck'
1899
Zincograph in blue-black on yellow wove paper
Image: 46.7 × 55.8 cm (18 7/16 × 22 in.); Sheet: 50.9 × 59.7 cm (20 1/16 × 23 9/16 in.)
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Max Klinger
Place, plate one from A Glove
1881
Ivory chine collé on off-white wove paper
Image: 22.7 × 33.2 cm (8 15/16 × 13 1/8 in.); Plate: 25.7 × 34.7 cm (10 1/8 × 13 11/16 in.); Sheet: 45 × 63 cm (17 3/4 × 24 13/16 in.)
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Max Klinger
A Glove: Action
1881
Etching and aquatint on ivory chine collé on off-white wove paper
Image: 24.7 × 18.8 cm (9 3/4 × 7 7/16 in.); Plate: 29.9 × 21 cm (11 13/16 × 8 5/16 in.); Sheet: 63.1 × 44.9 cm (24 7/8 × 17 11/16 in.)
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Max Klinger
Rescue, plate four from A Glove
1881
Etching on ivory chine collé on off-white wove paper
Image: 14.3 × 10.4 cm (5 11/16 × 4 1/8 in.); Plate: 12.8 × 18.2 cm (5 1/16 × 7 3/16 in.); Sheet: 63.1 × 45.2 cm (24 7/8 × 17 13/16 in.)
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Max Klinger
Triumph, plate five from A Glove
1881
Etching on ivory chine collé on off-white wove paper
Image: 11 × 23.8 cm (4 3/8 × 9 3/8 in.); Plate: 14.5 × 26.7 cm (5 3/4 × 10 9/16 in.); Sheet: 45 × 63.3 cm (17 3/4 × 24 15/16 in.)
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Max Klinger
Homage, plate six from A Glove
1881
Etching on ivory chine collé on off-white wove paper
Image: 12.3 × 29.3 cm (4 7/8 × 11 9/16 in.); Plate: 15.9 × 32.7 cm (6 5/16 × 12 7/8 in.); Sheet: 44.8 × 63.2 cm (17 11/16 × 24 15/16 in.)
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Max Klinger
Fears, plate seven from A Glove
1881
Etching on ivory chine collé on off-white wove paper
Image: 10.9 × 23.8 cm (4 5/16 × 9 3/8 in.); Plate: 14.4 × 26.9 cm (5 11/16 × 10 5/8 in.); Sheet: 45.2 × 63.3 cm (17 13/16 × 24 15/16 in.)
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Max Klinger
Repose
1881
Etching on ivory chine collé on off-white wove paper
Image: 11.1 × 23.4 cm (4 3/8 × 9 1/4 in.); Plate: 14.3 × 26.7 cm (5 11/16 × 10 9/16 in.); Sheet: 44.7 × 63.1 cm (17 5/8 × 24 7/8 in.)
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Max Klinger
Abduction, plate nine from A Glove
1881
Etching and aquatint on ivory chine collé on off-white wove paper
Image: 21.8 × 8.9 cm (8 5/8 × 3 9/16 in.); Plate: 26.9 × 12 cm (10 5/8 × 4 3/4 in.); Sheet: 66.3 × 45.1 cm (26 1/8 × 17 13/16 in.)
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Max Klinger
Cupid, plate ten from A Glove
1881
Etching and aquatint on ivory chine collé on off-white wove paper
Image: 10.9 × 23.7 cm (4 5/16 × 9 3/8 in.); Plate: 14.2 × 26.6 cm (5 5/8 × 10 1/2 in.); Sheet: 44.8 × 63.1 cm (17 11/16 × 24 7/8 in.)
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Max Klinger
Abandoned, plate five from A Life
1884
Etching and aquatint in dark brown and reddish-orange ink on lightweight off-white wove paper, laid down on heavy off-white wove plate paper
Image: 27.4 × 42.4 cm (10 13/16 × 16 3/4 in.); Plate: 32 × 45.3 cm (12 5/8 × 17 7/8 in.); Sheet: 37 × 53.3 cm (14 5/8 × 21 in.)
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Max Klinger
Wishes, plate three from A Glove
1881
Etching and aquatint on ivory chine collé on off-white wove paper
Image: 24.7 × 18.8 cm (9 3/4 × 7 7/16 in.); Plate: 29.9 × 21 cm (11 13/16 × 8 5/16 in.); Sheet: 63.1 × 44.9 cm (24 7/8 × 17 11/16 in.)
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Max Klinger
Night, from On Death Part I
1888–89
Etching, aquatint and burnishing in black ink on ivory wove paper
Image: 27.5 × 27.3 cm (10 7/8 × 10 3/4 in.); Plate: 31.5 × 31.5 cm (12 7/16 × 12 7/16 in.); Sheet: 36 × 36 cm (14 3/16 × 14 3/16 in.)
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Max Klinger
The Isle of the Dead
1890
Etching and aquatint in black ink on ivory wove paper, laid down on ivory wove plate paper (chine collé)
Image: 41.8 × 69.4 cm (16 1/2 × 27 3/8 in.); Plate: 61.3 × 77.4 cm (24 3/16 × 30 1/2 in.); Sheet: 67.6 × 87.4 cm (26 5/8 × 34 7/16 in.)
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Odilon Redon
The Beacon
1883, reworked c. 1893
Pastel, with various charcoals and touches of black chalk, stumping and erasing, on pale-pink wove paper with red fibers altered to a golden tone, laid down on cardboard
51.5 × 37.2 cm (20 5/16 × 14 11/16 in.)
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Odilon Redon
Flower Clouds
c. 1903
Pastel, with touches of stumping, incising, and brushwork, on blue-gray wove paper with multi-colored fibers altered to tan, perimeter mounted to cardboard
44.5 × 54.2 cm (17 9/16 × 21 3/8 in.)
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Odilon Redon
Blossoming, plate one from In Dreams
1879
Lithograph on mounted ivory China paper
33.4 × 25.9 cm (13 3/16 × 10 1/4 in.)
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Odilon Redon
Limbo, plate four from In Dreams
1879
Lithograph on mounted ivory China paper
30.7 × 22.3 cm (12 1/8 × 8 13/16 in.)
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Odilon Redon
The Gambler, plate five from In Dreams
1879
Lithograph on mounted ivory China paper
27.3 × 19.3 cm (10 3/4 × 7 5/8 in.)
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Odilon Redon
Gnome, plate six from In Dreams
1879
Lithograph on mounted ivory China paper
27.5 × 22.3 cm (10 7/8 × 8 13/16 in.)
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Odilon Redon
Felineness, plate seven from In Dreams
1879
Lithograph on mounted ivory China paper
Image: 27.1 × 20.4 cm (10 11/16 × 8 1/16 in.); Primary support: 27.1 × 20.7 cm (10 11/16 × 8 3/16 in.); Secondary support: 45.2 × 34.8 cm (17 13/16 × 13 3/4 in.)
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Odilon Redon
Vision, plate eight from In Dreams
1879
Lithograph on mounted cream China paper
27.6 × 19.9 cm (10 7/8 × 7 7/8 in.)
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Odilon Redon
Sad Ascent, plate nine from In Dreams
1879
Lithograph on mounted ivory China paper
27 × 20 cm (10 11/16 × 7 7/8 in.)
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Odilon Redon
On the Dish, plate ten from In Dreams
1879
Lithograph on mounted ivory China paper
24.4 × 16.3 cm (9 5/8 × 6 7/16 in.)
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Odilon Redon
The Eye, Like a Strange Balloon Moves Towards Infinity, plate one from To Edgar Poe
1882
Lithograph in black on ivory China paper, laid down on white wove paper
Image/chine: 26.3 × 19.8 cm (10 3/8 × 7 13/16 in.); Sheet: 44.3 × 31.5 cm (17 1/2 × 12 7/16 in.)
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Odilon Redon
Sita
c. 1893
Pastel, with touches of black Conté crayon, over various charcoals, on cream wove paper altered to a golden tone
53.6 × 37.7 cm (21 1/8 × 14 7/8 in.)
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Odilon Redon
The Sphinx
1883
Various charcoals, with touches of black chalk, stumping, wiping, and erasing, on pale-pink wove paper with red and blue fibers altered to a golden tone
52.6 × 37.7 cm (20 3/4 × 14 7/8 in.)
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Odilon Redon
Cauldron of the Sorceress
1879
Various charcoals, with stumping, erasing, and incising, on pale-pink wove paper with red and blue fibers altered to a golden tone
40.8 × 37.1 cm (16 1/8 × 14 5/8 in.)
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Odilon Redon
Strange Flower (Little Sister of the Poor)
1880
Various charcoals, with touches of black chalk and black Conté crayon, stumping, incising and erasing, on yellowish cream wove paper altered to a golden tone
40.4 × 33.2 cm (15 15/16 × 13 1/8 in.)
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Odilon Redon
Primitive Man
1872
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
39.3 × 33.8 cm (15 1/2 × 13 5/16 in.)
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Odilon Redon
Germination, plate two from In Dreams
1879
Lithograph on tan wove paper
27.3 × 19.5 cm (10 3/4 × 7 11/16 in.)
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Odilon Redon
Et que des yeux sans tete flottaient comme des mollusques, plate XIII of Tentation de St. Antoine
1896
Lithograph in black on pinkish-cream China paper laid down on ivory wove paper
Image/chine: 31.1 × 22.5 cm (12 1/4 × 8 7/8 in.); Sheet: 45.3 × 34.9 cm (17 7/8 × 13 3/4 in.)
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Odilon Redon
The Wheel, plate three from In Dreams
1879
Lithograph on mounted ivory China paper
23.3 × 19.9 cm (9 3/16 × 7 7/8 in.)
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Odilon Redon
Faust and Mephistopheles
1880
Various charcoals, with wiping, stumping, erasing, and incising, on cream wove paper altered to a golden tone
40 × 32 cm (15 3/4 × 12 5/8 in.)
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Odilon Redon
Des Esseintes
1888
Lithograph on chine laid down on cream wove paper
Image: 14.9 × 9.6 cm (5 7/8 × 3 13/16 in.); Sheet: 28 × 37.4 cm (11 1/16 × 14 3/4 in.)
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Paul Gauguin
Heads of Tahitian Women, Frontal and Profile Views
1891/93
Charcoal and wetted charcoal, with stumping and erasing, on cream wove paper, selectively fixed
41.3 × 32.5 cm (16 5/16 × 12 13/16 in.)
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Paul Gauguin
Nativity (Mother and Child Surrounded by Five Figures)
c. 1902
Transfer drawing in brown and black ink (recto) and graphite and red chalk (verso) on cream wove paper trimmed and perimeter mounted on cream laid paper
24.4 × 22.1 cm (9 5/8 × 8 3/4 in.)
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Paul Gauguin
Buddha, from the Suite of Late Wood-Block Prints
1898/99
Wood-block print in black ink on thin ivory Japanese paper perimeter mounted on white Japanese paper
Image: 29.7 × 22 cm (11 3/4 × 8 11/16 in.); Primary support: 30.4 × 22.7 cm (12 × 8 15/16 in.); Secondary support: 40.5 × 32.9 cm (16 × 13 in.)
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Paul Gauguin
L’univers est créé (The Universe Is Being Created), from the Noa Noa Suite
1893/94
Wood-block print, printed twice in black and brown inks, with selective wiping, and hand-applied orange, yellow, red, two tones of green, two tones of blue, silver-gray and black watercolor, on cream wove Japanese paper laid down on cream laid Japanese paper (a laminate made by the artist)
Image: 20.4 × 35.4 cm (8 1/16 × 13 15/16 in.); Sheets: 20.6 × 35.6 cm (8 1/8 × 14 1/16 in.)
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Paul Gauguin
Woman with a Cat
c. 1900
Transfer drawing in brownish-black ink (recto); graphite and blue crayon pencil with brush and solvent washes in ocher on cream wove paper
46.5 × 61.5 cm (18 5/16 × 24 1/4 in.)
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Paul Gauguin
Nave nave fenua (Delightful Land), from the Noa Noa Suite
1893–94
Wood-block print, printed twice in yellow ocher and black inks, over a yellow ink tone block, and stenciled red oil medium, on cream Japanese paper discolored to a grayish tone
Image: 35.9 × 20.7 cm (14 3/16 × 8 3/16 in.); Sheet: 39.2 × 25 cm (15 7/16 × 9 7/8 in.)
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Paul Signac
In Times of Harmony
1895–96
Color Lithograph in green, blue, yellow, red, and peach with scraping on plate, from a zinc plate on buff wove paper
Image: 37.7 × 50.2 cm (14 7/8 × 19 13/16 in.); Sheet: 41.9 × 58 cm (16 1/2 × 22 7/8 in.)
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Vincent van Gogh
Weeping Woman
1883
Black and white chalk, with brush and stumping, brush and black and gray wash, and traces of graphite, over a brush and brown ink underdrawing on ivory wove paper
50.2 × 31.4 cm (19 13/16 × 12 3/8 in.)
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