Wednesday 29 June 2022

Odilon Redon - part 6

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:


1891 Parsifal
transfer lithograph on mounted ivory China paper
 32.2 x 24.3 cm (image)
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

1891 Passage of a Soul
etching and drypoint on cream laid paper
8.2 x 5.2 cm (image)

1891 Perversity
etching and drypoint on ivory laid paper
15.9 x 12.5 cm (image)

1891 Perversity
etching on ivory laid paper 21 x 16.5 cm (plate)

1891 Pilgrim from a sub-lunar World
lithograph 27.7 x 20.5 cm (image)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1891 The Day
lithograph (chine appliqué) 44.9 x 31.6 cm
Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands

1891 The vague glimmer of a Head suspended in Space
lithograph 17.4 x 20.8 cm (image)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

c1891 Woman and Flowers
charcoal and chalk on paper 44.6 x 37 cm
Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands

1892 Half-length Woman
drypoint 12.8 x 9 cm
The British Museum, London

1892 Mystical Conversation
lithograph in black on ivory China paper 13.3 x 9.6 cm (image)

1892 Princess Maleine (The Little Madonna)
etching and drypoint on cream laid paper
8.2 x 6.3 cm (image)

1892 Princess Maleine (The Little Madonna)
etching and drypoint on ivory Japanese paper
12 x 6.6 cm (plate)

1892 Sciapode
etching and drypoint with plate tone on heavy cream wove paper 19.3 x 14.2 cm (image)

1892 The Golden Cell
oil and coloured chalks, with gold 30.1 x 24.7 cm
The British Museum, London

1892 The Reader
 lithograph in black on ivory China paper 31.2 x 23.7 cm

1892 Tree
lithograph on chine collé 47.7 x 31.9 cm (image)
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

c1892 Beatrice
 charcoal with stumping and erasing on cream wove paper 527 x 38 cm

c1892 Time
chalk and pastel on paper 34.7 x 25.8 cm
Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands

1893 Darkness (Tenebres) by Iwan Gilkin
Frontispiece
lithograph 19.9 x 12.2 cm

1893 Ex-libris
etching on cream laid paper 13.8 x 10 cm (plate)

1893 Frontispiece for Chevaleries Sentimentales by Ferdinand Hérold
lithograph printed in dark green on ivory China paper
13.6 x 8.2 cm (image)

1893 Light
lithograph 39.3 x 27.2 cm (image)

1893 My Child
lithograph in black on ivory China paper
22.8 x 21.3 cm (image)

1893 The Book of Light
charcoal on tan paper 52.2 x 37.5 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

1893 The Druidess
 charcoal on paper 39 x 33 cm
Private Collection

1893 The Wing
lithograph in black on ivory China paper
31.7 x 24.4 cm (image)

1893-94 Auricular Cell
lithograph, with scraping on stone, in black on tan Japanese paper 26.9 x 25.1 cm (image)

1893-94 Haunting
lithograph 36.1 x 22.8 cm (image)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

after 1895 Vase of flowers: red poppy
oil on canvas 27 x 19 cm
Musée d'Orsay, Paris
© RMN-Grand Palais (Orsay Museum)

c1894 The Burgrave
charcoal on paper 47.6 x 34.9 cm
Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands

1894 Winged Horse
lithograph
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

1894 The Charger
lithograph in black on heavy cream wove paper
21.2 x 19.4 cm (image)

1894 The Celestial Art
lithograph 31.5 x 25.6 cm (image)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1894 Obsession
 lithograph in black on light grey China paper
36.4 x 22.8 cm (image)

1894 Obsession
lithograph in black on cream China paper
36.4 x 22.8 cm (image)

1894 Ear Cell
lithograph on wove paper 26.9 x 24.9 cm (image)
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

1894 Brünnhilde
lithograph in black on heavy cream wove paper
37.9 x 29.4 cm (image)

c1893 Sita
pastel, conté crayon, charcoal on cream wove paper
 53.6 x 37.7 cm
Art Institute of Chicago, IL

c1895-1900 Young Woman 
red chalk and pastel on paper 49.5 x 37.5 cm
Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands

c1895-1900 Veiled Woman
pastel and chalk on blue paper 47.8 x 32 cm
Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands

1895-1900 Centaur
pastel on canvas 73 x 60.3 cm
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

1895-1900 Caliban Sleep
oil on wood 48.2 x 38.5 cm
© Musee d'Orsay, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais

1895 The Buddha
lithograph in black on ivory China paper 31.4 x 25 cm (image)

1895 Profile of a women with flowers (illusion)
charcoal and chalk on paper 51.3 x 37.5 cm
Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands

1895 La Bretonne
charcoal on paper 43.2 x 35.6 cm
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

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

1895 Blood flower
pastel on grey paper 30 x 43 cm
Musée d'Orsay, Paris
© RMN-Grand Palais (Orsay Museum)

c1895-1905 Profile of a Woman with a Vase of Flowers
oil on canvas 65.5 x 50.5 cm
Tate, London

1895-97 Vision
black pastel, with charcoal and black chalk, stumping, scraping and erasing, on ivory wove paper 52.6 x 37.7 cm

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)

c1895 Blue profile
pastel on paper 43.2 x 34.3 cm

c1895 Christ
charcoal, chalk, pastel, and pencil on paper 45.1 x 37.1 cm
 MoMA, New York

c1895 Man with laurel wreath
chalk and pencil on paper 51.5 x 37.6 cm
Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands

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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