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 11 of 13 on the works of Odilon Redon:
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| c1912 Evocation of Roussel oil on canvas 73 x 54 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
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| c1912 Five Butterflies watercolour on wove paper 27 x 21.1 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
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| c1912 Large Vase with Flowers oil on canvas 73 x 54.6 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
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| c1912 The Chariot of Apollo oil on canvas 99.7 x 74.9 cm MoMA, New York |
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| 1913 Vase of Flowers - Large Composition pastel 93.3 x 83.1 cm (frame) Los Angeles museum County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA |
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| c1914-15 Anemones and poppies oil on canvas 73.2 x 60 cm |
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| c1914 Pandora oil on canvas 143.5 x 62.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| c1914 The Cyclops oil on cardboard mounted on panel 65.8 x 52.7 cm Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands |
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| c1915 Vase of Flowers oil on canvas 65.7 x 55 cm Art Gallery of Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
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| 1916 The Man pastel on paper Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands |
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| 1916 Vase of Flowers pastel 84.1 x 58 cm |
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| c1916 The sleeping child watercolour, gouache and pencil on card 17.8 x 25.7 cm |
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| n.d. A Street in Bordeaux lead pencil 22.5 x 23.3 cm RMN (Musée d'Orsay) |
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| n.d. Allegorical Figure (The Giant) graphite on cream wove paper, darkened 24.4 x 28 cm Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College |
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| n.d. And over there the astral idol, the apotheosis lithograph 27.5 x 19 cm (image) Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA |
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| n.d. Apollo vanquishing the serpent Python mural 800 x 750 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris |
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| n.d. Archangel Raphael leaving Tobit's family (copy after Rembrandt) oil on canvas 68 x 49.4 cm Musée d'Orsay, Paris © RMN-Grand Palais (Orsay Museum) |
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| n.d. Autumn in the Médoc oil on canvas 31.5 x 41 cm Musée d'Orsay, Paris © RMN-Grand Palais (Orsay Museum) |
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| n.d. Barbizon in Autumn oil on paper mounted on cardboard 33 x 24.4 cm Musée d'Orsay, Paris © RMN-Grand Palais (Orsay Museum) |
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| n.d. Bare Heath oil on paper mounted on cardboard 18.8 x 32 cm Musée d'Orsay, Paris © RMN-Grand Palais (Orsay Museum) |
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| n.d. Bertrand Redon asleep black pencil on cream paper 12.3 x 17.4 cm Louvre, Paris © NMR |
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| n.d. Birches in Bievres oil on paper mounted on cardboard 27 x 22 cm Musée d'Orsay, Paris © RMN-Grand Palais (Orsay Museum) |
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| n.d. Blood-flower: standing in a body of water, a woman seen from the front pastel on grey paper 30 x 43 cm © RMN-Grand Palais (Orsay Museum) |
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| n.d. Boat stranded at Low Tide black pencil and stumping, on beige paper 23.1 x 31.7 cm RMN (Musée d'Orsay) |
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| n.d. Bouquet of field flowers in a long-necked vase pastel on buff paper 57 x 35 cm © RMN-Grand Palais (Orsay Museum) |
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| n.d. Box at the Theatre oil paint on tan wove paper 48.8 x 60 cm |
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| n.d. Breton cottage oil on paper mounted on cardboard 27.5 x 22 cm Musée d'Orsay, Paris © RMN-Grand Palais (Orsay Museum) |
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| n.d. Breton Port oil on paper mounted on cardboard 21.8 x 32.5 cm Musée d'Orsay, Paris © RMN-Grand Palais (Orsay Museum) |
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| n.d. Bust of a man with closed eyes, surrounded by flowers black pencil and watercolour 25.5 x 17.7 cm Louvre, Paris © NMR |
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| n.d. Caliban Sleeping oil on wood 48.2 x 38.5 cm Musée d'Orsay, Paris © RMN-Grand Palais (Orsay Museum) |
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| n.d. Captive Pegasus pastel 34.6 x 21.8 cm Louvre, Paris © NMR |
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| n.d. Caricature of a Man playing the Piano graphite on beige paper 16.8 x 10.2 cm Louvre, Paris © NMR |
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| n.d. Cave from which a man emerges graphite on brown paper 19.5 x 22.5 cm Louvre, Paris © NMR |
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| n.d. Cell charcoal, black chalk and black pastel with stumping and erasing, on pale pink wove paper 50.8 x 37.8 cm |
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| n.d. Centaur abducting a Nymph graphite with white highlights on blue paper 19.1 x 26.5 cm Louvre, Paris © NMR |
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| n.d. Centaur black pencil 32.5 x 23 cm RMN-Grand Palais (Louvre Museum) |
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| n.d. Chimera charcoal on buff paper 54.5 x 39 cm Louvre, Paris, © RMN |
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| n.d. Christ and Apostles black pencil 20.1 x 31 cm RMN-Grand Palais (Louvre Museum) |
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| n.d. Clear clouds over a moor oil on paper mounted on cardboard 16.2 x 28.8 cm Musée d'Orsay, Paris © RMN-Grand Palais (Orsay Museum) |
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| n.d. Cliff overlooking the sea oil on paper mounted on cardboard 32.5 x 23.8 cm Musée d'Orsay, Paris © RMN-Grand Palais (Orsay Museum) |
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| n.d. Clump of Trees graphite, brown wash and brush on buff paper 37.8 x 27 cm Louvre, Paris © NMR |
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| n.d. Copse oil on cardboard 24 x 33.8 cm Musée d'Orsay, Paris © RMN-Grand Palais (Orsay Museum) |
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| n.d. Dune, near Royan watercolour 18.8 x 27.6 cm RMN (Musée d'Orsay) |
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| n.d. Dunes oil on paper mounted on cardboard 20.2 x 24.5 cm Musée d'Orsay, Paris © RMN-Grand Palais (Orsay Museum) |
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| n.d. Dutch profiles gouache, watercolour and pencil on paper 17.6 x 25 cm |
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| n.d. Evocation (aka Head of Christ) Private Collection |
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| n.d. Face behind a window charcoal on paper 35.4 x 36.8 cm |
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| n.d. Fantasy: orange and blue burst, on a dark background pastel on buff paper © RMN-Grand Palais |
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| n.d. Five Studies of Nude Women graphite on beige paper 47.3 x 31 cm Louvre, Paris © NMR |
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| n.d. Flight into Egypt oil on canvas 45.4 x 38 cm Musée d'Orsay, Paris © RMN-Grand Palais (Orsay Museum) |
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