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| c1880 Self-Portrait oil on canvas 46.4 x 33.3 cm Musée d'Orsay, Paris © RMN-Grand Palais (Orsay Museum) |
Odilon Redon (1840 Bordeaux - 1916 Paris) was a French Symbolist painter, lithographer, and etcher of considerable poetic sensitivity and imagination, whose work developed along two divergent lines. His prints explore haunted, fantastic, often macabre themes and foreshadowed the Surrealist and Dadaist movements. His oils and pastels, chiefly still lifes with flowers, won him the admiration of Henri Matisse and other painters as an important colourist.
Redon studied under Jean-Léon Gérôme; and mastered engraving from Rodolphe Vresdin, who exerted an important influence; and learned lithography under Henri Fantin-Latour. His aesthetic was one of imagination rather than visual perception. His imagination found an intellectual catalyst in his close friend, the Symbolist poet Stéphane Mallarmé. Redon was also associated with the group of Symbolist painters.
Redon produced nearly 200 prints, beginning in 1879 with the lithographs collectively titled In the Dream. He completed another series (1882) dedicated to Edgar Allan Poe, whose poems had been translated into French with great success by Mallarmé and Charles Baudelaire. Rather than illustrating Poe, Redon’s lithographs are poems in visual terms, themselves evoking the poet’s world of private torment. There is an evident link to Goya in Redon’s imagery of winged demons and menacing shapes, and one of his series was the Homage to Goya (1885).
About the time of the print series The Apocalypse of St. John (1889), Redon began devoting himself to painting and colour drawing—sensitive floral studies, and heads that appear to be dreaming or lost in reverie. He developed a unique palette of powdery and pungent hues. Though there is a relationship between his work and that of the Impressionist painters, he opposed both Impressionism and Realism as wholly perceptual.
This is part 2 of 13 on the works of Odilon Redon:
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| c1875 Landscape with Rocks, near Royan oil over black chalk on grey card-stock 21.3 x 26.7 cm MoMA, New York |
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| c1875 The Rocky Slope oil over black chalk on tan card-stock, mounted on canvas 25.1 x 32.7 cm MoMA, New York |
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| c1875 Tree black charcoal with touches of brown charcoal, stumping, scraping and erasing, on ivory wove paper 49.3 x 38.2 cm |
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| c1875 Turnip oil on cardboard 23 x 32.7 cm Musée d'Orsay, Paris © RMN-Grand Palais (Orsay Museum) |
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| c1875 Windmill pastel on coloured paper 42.2 x 51.8 cm MoMA, New York |
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| 1876 Melancholy charcoal, gouache, pastel, black chalk, stumping and erasing on pink wove paper 36.8 x 35.7 cm Art Institute of Chicago, IL |
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| c1876 Primitive Being charcoals and black chalk, with stumping, wiping, and erasing, fixed, on cream wove paper 44.5 x 36.9 cm |
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| 1877 Head of a Martyr charcoal and pencil on paper 36.6 x 36.3 cm Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands |
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| 1877 Profile of a Woman charcoal on paper 26.4 x 28.4 cm Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands |
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| c1877 Mephistopheles, also known as Harlequin pencil and coloured conté crayon on paper 16.8 x 12.7 cm MoMA, New York |
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| 1878 Eye-Balloon charcoal and chalk on coloured paper 42.2 x 33.3 cm MoMA, New York |
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| 1878 Guardian Spirit of the Waters charcoal, black chalk, stumping on cream wove paper 46.6 x 37.6 cm Art Institute of Chicago, IL |
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| 1878 Tears charcoal with opaque white watercolour on paper 44.5 x 35.6 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA |
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| c1878-79 A Severed Head charcoal on buff paper 39.5 x 37 cm © Louvre Museum, dist. RMN-Grand Palais |
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| 1878/82 The Die, also called the Weight of Passions graphite with pen and black ink, heightened with white lead (discoloured) on cream wove paper 17.1 x 12.7 cm |
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| c1878 The Celt charcoal, chalk, and white chalk on paper 45.4 c 36.5 cm MoMA, New York |
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| 1879 Cauldron of the Sorceress charcoal, stumping, erasing, and incising, on pale-pink wove paper 40.8 x 37.1 cm Art Institute of Chicago, IL 1879 In Dreams: |
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| Cover-Frontispiece lithograph on tan wove paper 30.2 x 22.3 cm |
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| Plate 1. Blossoming lithograph 33.4 x 25.9 cm Art Institute of Chicago, IL |
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| Plate 2. 1879 Germination lithograph 27.3 x 19.5 cm Art Institute of Chicago, IL |
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| Plate 3. The Wheel lithograph 23.3 x 19.9 cm |
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| Plate 4. Limbo lithograph 30.7 x 22.3 cm |
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| Plate 5. The Gambler lithograph 27.3 x 19.3 cm |
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| Plate 6. Gnome lithograph 27.5 x 22.3 cm Art Institute of Chicago, IL |
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| Plate 7. Felineness lithograph 27.1 x 20.4 cm (image) |
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| Plate 8. 1879 Vision lithograph 27.6 x 19.9 cm Art Institute of Chicago, IL |
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| Plate 9. Sad Ascent lithograph 27 x 20 cm |
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| Plate 10. On the Dish lithograph 24.4 x 16.3 cm |
c1879-85 Sketchbook:
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| 1880 Faust and Mephistopheles charcoal with wiping, stumping, erasing, and incising, on cream wove paper 40 x 32 cm Art Institute of Chicago, IL |
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| 1880 Portrait of Madame Redon embroidering pastel 58 x 42 cm © RMN-Grand Palais (Orsay Museum) |
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| 1880 Profile of Glory (Caesar) charcoal on paper 36.3 x 31 cm Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands |
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| 1880 Strange Flower (Little Sister of the Poor) charcoal, black chalk, conté crayon, and stumping on cream wove paper 40.4 x 33.2 cm Art Institute of Chicago, IL |
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| c1880-92 Saint George and the Dragon charcoal and pastel on tan wove paper 53.7 x 37.5 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
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| 1880-95 Chimera charcoal on buff wove paper 50.9 x 37.8 cm Harvard Art Museums / Fogg Museum Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College |
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| c1880 Dream Vision etching and drypoint on buff wove paper 12 x 12.3 cm (plate) |
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| 1880c Dream Vision etching and drypoint on ivory wove paper 8.8 x 10.2 cm |
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| c1880 Human Plant charcoal with black pastel, stumping, scraping and erasing, on ivory wove paper 47.3 x 34.2 cm |
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| c1880 The Well charcoal and chalk on paper 35.6 x 23.8 cm MoMA, New York |
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| c1880 Tobias etching and drypoint on white wove paper 16.5 x 11.7 cm (image) |
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| c1880 Village by the Sea in Brittany oil on cardboard on hardboard 25 x 32.3 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
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| 1881 Caliban, little Monster or Gnome charcoal on buff paper 49.9 x 36.7 cm © Louvre Museum, dist. RMN-Grand Palais |
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| 1881 Head of Orpheus floating in the water black chalk, and charcoal on paper 41.6 x 34.5 cm Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands |
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| 1881 Head Wearing a Phrygian Cap, on a Salver charcoal with black chalk, stumping, scraping and erasing, on pale pink wove paper 48.4 x 36.3 cm |
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| 1881 The Battle of the Bones charcoal on paper 44.7 x 37.3 cm Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands |
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