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CLAUDE-ÉMILE SCHUFFENECKER Odilon Redon.
Black chalk on cream laid paper, circa 1890. 310x240 mm; 12 1/4x9 1/2 inches. With the artist's red lotus ink stamp, lower right recto.
Ex-collection Sabine Helms, Munich; private collection, New York; thence by descent.
Schuffenecker (1851-1931) became close friends with Paul Gauguin when the two worked as clerks at the Parisian brokerage house Bertin in the early 1870s, and the two young men would often study the Old Masters at the Louvre in their free time. They remained close and often painted together until a falling out in 1890 allegedly precipitated by Gaugin's affair with Schuffenecker's wife.
Schuffenecker and Redon had known each other and corresponded since 1884. This is a study for a lithograph portrait Schuffenecker created for the cover of Les Hommes d'aujord hui in 1891. There is another similar study in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
