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 6 of 13 on the works of Odilon Redon:
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| 1891 Parsifal transfer lithograph on mounted ivory China paper 32.2 x 24.3 cm (image) Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA |
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| 1891 Passage of a Soul etching and drypoint on cream laid paper 8.2 x 5.2 cm (image) |
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| 1891 Perversity etching and drypoint on ivory laid paper 15.9 x 12.5 cm (image) |
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| 1891 Perversity etching on ivory laid paper 21 x 16.5 cm (plate) |
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| 1891 Pilgrim from a sub-lunar World lithograph 27.7 x 20.5 cm (image) Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| 1891 The Day lithograph (chine appliqué) 44.9 x 31.6 cm Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands |
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| 1891 The vague glimmer of a Head suspended in Space lithograph 17.4 x 20.8 cm (image) Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| c1891 Woman and Flowers charcoal and chalk on paper 44.6 x 37 cm Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands |
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| 1892 Half-length Woman drypoint 12.8 x 9 cm The British Museum, London |
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| 1892 Mystical Conversation lithograph in black on ivory China paper 13.3 x 9.6 cm (image) |
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| 1892 Princess Maleine (The Little Madonna) etching and drypoint on cream laid paper 8.2 x 6.3 cm (image) |
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| 1892 Princess Maleine (The Little Madonna) etching and drypoint on ivory Japanese paper 12 x 6.6 cm (plate) |
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| 1892 Sciapode etching and drypoint with plate tone on heavy cream wove paper 19.3 x 14.2 cm (image) |
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| 1892 The Golden Cell oil and coloured chalks, with gold 30.1 x 24.7 cm The British Museum, London |
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| 1892 The Reader lithograph in black on ivory China paper 31.2 x 23.7 cm |
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| 1892 Tree lithograph on chine collé 47.7 x 31.9 cm (image) Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA |
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| c1892 Beatrice charcoal with stumping and erasing on cream wove paper 527 x 38 cm |
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| c1892 Time chalk and pastel on paper 34.7 x 25.8 cm Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands |
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| 1893 Darkness (Tenebres) by Iwan Gilkin Frontispiece lithograph 19.9 x 12.2 cm |
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| 1893 Ex-libris etching on cream laid paper 13.8 x 10 cm (plate) |
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| 1893 Frontispiece for Chevaleries Sentimentales by Ferdinand Hérold lithograph printed in dark green on ivory China paper 13.6 x 8.2 cm (image) |
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| 1893 Light lithograph 39.3 x 27.2 cm (image) |
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| 1893 My Child lithograph in black on ivory China paper 22.8 x 21.3 cm (image) |
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| 1893 The Book of Light charcoal on tan paper 52.2 x 37.5 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
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| 1893 The Druidess charcoal on paper 39 x 33 cm Private Collection |
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| 1893 The Wing lithograph in black on ivory China paper 31.7 x 24.4 cm (image) |
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| 1893-94 Auricular Cell lithograph, with scraping on stone, in black on tan Japanese paper 26.9 x 25.1 cm (image) |
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| 1893-94 Haunting lithograph 36.1 x 22.8 cm (image) Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| after 1895 Vase of flowers: red poppy oil on canvas 27 x 19 cm Musée d'Orsay, Paris © RMN-Grand Palais (Orsay Museum) |
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| c1894 The Burgrave charcoal on paper 47.6 x 34.9 cm Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands |
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| 1894 Winged Horse lithograph National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
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| 1894 The Charger lithograph in black on heavy cream wove paper 21.2 x 19.4 cm (image) |
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| 1894 The Celestial Art lithograph 31.5 x 25.6 cm (image) Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| 1894 Obsession lithograph in black on light grey China paper 36.4 x 22.8 cm (image) |
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| 1894 Obsession lithograph in black on cream China paper 36.4 x 22.8 cm (image) |
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| 1894 Ear Cell lithograph on wove paper 26.9 x 24.9 cm (image) National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
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| 1894 Brünnhilde lithograph in black on heavy cream wove paper 37.9 x 29.4 cm (image) |
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| c1893 Sita pastel, conté crayon, charcoal on cream wove paper 53.6 x 37.7 cm Art Institute of Chicago, IL |
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| c1895-1900 Young Woman red chalk and pastel on paper 49.5 x 37.5 cm Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands |
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| c1895-1900 Veiled Woman pastel and chalk on blue paper 47.8 x 32 cm Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands |
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| 1895-1900 Centaur pastel on canvas 73 x 60.3 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA |
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| 1895-1900 Caliban Sleep oil on wood 48.2 x 38.5 cm © Musee d'Orsay, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais |
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| 1895 The Buddha lithograph in black on ivory China paper 31.4 x 25 cm (image) |
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| 1895 Profile of a women with flowers (illusion) charcoal and chalk on paper 51.3 x 37.5 cm Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands |
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| 1895 La Bretonne charcoal on paper 43.2 x 35.6 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA |
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| 1895 Christ crowned with Thorns charcoal, black pastel and black crayon, stumping, erasing, and incising on tan wove paper toned gold 52.2 x 37.9 cm The British Museum, London |
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| 1895 Blood flower pastel on grey paper 30 x 43 cm Musée d'Orsay, Paris © RMN-Grand Palais (Orsay Museum) |
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| c1895-1905 Profile of a Woman with a Vase of Flowers oil on canvas 65.5 x 50.5 cm Tate, London |
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| 1895-97 Vision black pastel, with charcoal and black chalk, stumping, scraping and erasing, on ivory wove paper 52.6 x 37.7 cm |
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| c1895 Bearded winged old man pastel on grey-beige paper 56.9 x 39.7 cm Musée d'Orsay, Paris © RMN-Grand Palais (Orsay Museum) |
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| c1895 Blue profile pastel on paper 43.2 x 34.3 cm |
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| c1895 Christ charcoal, chalk, pastel, and pencil on paper 45.1 x 37.1 cm MoMA, New York |
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| c1895 Man with laurel wreath chalk and pencil on paper 51.5 x 37.6 cm Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands |
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| c1895 Profile of Shadow charcoal, stumping, incising, erasing, and subtractive brushwork, on pale-pink wove paper 47.1 x 35.4 cm |
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