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 12 of 13 on the works of Odilon Redon:
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| n.d. Green plant in an urn oil on canvas 85 x 60 cm Musée d'Orsay, Paris © RMN-Grand Palais (Orsay Museum) |
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| n.d. Hallucinations charcoal on tan paper 29.5 x 23.7 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| n.d. Haystacks covered with tarps near a tree oil on paper mounted on cardboard 18.7 x 25 cm Musée d'Orsay, Paris © RMN-Grand Palais (Orsay Museum) |
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| n.d. Hazy sun on a moor oil on paper mounted on cardboard 23.8 x 32.5 cm Musée d'Orsay, Paris © RMN-Grand Palais (Orsay Museum) |
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| n.d. Head in a Sphere lead pencil 20.6 x 13 cm Louvre, Paris © NMR |
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| n.d. Head of a bearded man charcoal and stumping on grey paper 30.7 x 29.3 cm RMN-Grand Palais |
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| n.d. Head of a female brush, ink and wash on paper 12.1 x 18.1 cm |
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| n.d. Head of a woman in profile charcoal on buff paper 52.2 x 36.4 cm The British Museum, London |
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| n.d. Head of a Woman pastel on brown paper 59.6 x 72.3 cm Dallas Museum of Art, Texas |
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| n.d. Head of a woman watercolour on paper 17.4 x 15.7 cm |
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| n.d. Head of a young woman graphite on brown paper 36.1 x 25.6 cm Louvre, Paris © NMR |
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| n.d. Head of a young woman graphite, black pencil and stumping on pink paper 25.6 x 25.6 cm Louvre, Paris © NMR |
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| n.d. Head of a young woman pastel on grey-prepared paper 52.6 x 37.7 cm Harvard Art Museums-Fogg Museum Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College |
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| n.d. Head of Orpheus oil on canvas 32.2 x 40.2 cm Musée d'Orsay, Paris © RMN-Grand Palais (Orsay Museum) |
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| n.d. Head of the Virgin pencil on blue paper 28.2 x 19.7 cm Louvre, Paris © NMR |
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| n.d. Hill, near Royan oil on canvas 24 x 31.9 cm Musée d'Orsay, Paris © RMN-Grand Palais (Orsay Museum) |
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| n.d. Horse: with a Dragon graphite 11.5 x 11.3 cm The British Museum, London |
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| n.d. House with two trees oil on paper mounted on canvas 24.8 x 17.7 cm Musée d'Orsay, Paris © RMN-Grand Palais (Orsay Museum) |
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| n.d. Jewish wedding in Morocco (copy after Delacroix) oil on canvas 40 x 32.5 cm Musée d'Orsay, Paris © RMN-Grand Palais (Orsay Museum) |
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| n.d. Joan of Arc pastel 52 x 36 cm © RMN-Grand Palais (Musée d'Orsay) |
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| n.d. Landscape at sunset watercolour and varnish 20.3 x 14.8 cm RMN-Grand Palais (Orsay Museum) |
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| n.d. Madame Redon reading graphite on blue paper 17.5 x 15.6 cm Louvre, Paris |
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| n.d. Man in a large black hat, dressed in a doublet graphite on brown paper 12 x 12.5 cm RMN-Grand Palais (Orsay Museum) |
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| n.d. Mephisto charcoal with touches of black chalk, stumping, scraping and erasing, on yellowish-tan wove paper 37.8 x 35.6 cm |
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| n.d. Médoc, the clump of trees oil on paper mounted on cardboard 22 x 27 cm Musée d'Orsay, Paris © RMN-Grand Palais (Orsay Museum) |
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| n.d. Médoc, the moor oil on paper laid down on cardboard 33.5 x 41 cm Musée d'Orsay, Paris © RMN-Grand Palais (Orsay Museum) |
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n.d. Médoc, the tree oil on canvas mounted on cardboard 33 x 41 cm Musée d'Orsay, Paris © RMN-Grand Palais (Orsay Museum) |
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| n.d. Path near the sea oil on paper mounted on cardboard 19.5 x 26.3 cm Musée d'Orsay, Paris © RMN-Grand Palais (Orsay Museum) |
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| n.d. Path near the sea oil on cardboard 24.5 x 32 cm Musée d'Orsay, Paris © RMN-Grand Palais (Orsay Museum) |
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| n.d. Parsifal pastel 66 x 52 cm RMN-Grand Palais (Orsay Museum) |
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| n.d. Old tree in a meadow oil on paper mounted on cardboard 18.2 x 25.7 cm Musée d'Orsay, Paris © RMN-Grand Palais (Orsay Museum) |
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| n.d. Night oil on paper mounted on cardboard 18 x 23.4 cm Musée d'Orsay, Paris © RMN-Grand Palais (Orsay Museum) |
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| n.d. Morgat seen from the dunes of La Palue oil on paper mounted on cardboard 26.5 x 40 cm Musée d'Orsay, Paris © RMN-Grand Palais (Orsay Museum) |
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| n.d. Moor with a pond oil on paper mounted on cardboard 182 x 285 cm Musée d'Orsay, Paris © RMN-Grand Palais (Orsay Museum) |
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| n.d. Mill in Brittany oil on paper mounted on cardboard 34.7 x 26.6 cm Musée d'Orsay, Paris © RMN-Grand Palais (Orsay Museum) |
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| n.d. Mill in Brittany oil on paper mounted on cardboard 26 x 34.8 cm Musée d'Orsay, Paris © RMN-Grand Palais (Orsay Museum) |
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| n.d. Pear Blossoms pastel on paper 94.6 x 76.8 cm Dallas Museum of Art, Texas |
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| n.d. Peyrelebade oil on canvas 36.7 x 45 cm Musée d'Orsay, Paris © RMN-Grand Palais (Orsay Museum) |
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| n.d. Poppies and sweet carnations in a vase oil on canvas 60.2 x 73.2 cm |
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| n.d. Poppy Eye charcoal on buff paper 48.5 x 33 cm © Louvre Museum, dist. RMN-Grand Palais |
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| n.d. Portrait of a young woman in a blue cap pastel 53 x 39.5 cm Musée d'Orsay, Paris © RMN-Grand Palais (Orsay Museum) |
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| n.d. Portrait of Madame Odilon Redon pastel and sanguine 55 x 44.5 cm Louvre, Paris |
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| n.d. Prancing horse on a treetop oil on paper 47 x 49 cm Musée d'Orsay, Paris © RMN-Grand Palais (Orsay Museum) |
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| n.d. Precarious Glow lithograph 27.3 x 20.6 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA |
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| n.d. Profile head and other sketches black crayon on buff wove paper 31.1 x 20 cm |
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| n.d. Pyrenees Mountain oil on paper mounted on cardboard 24 x 33 cm Musée d'Orsay, Paris © RMN-Grand Palais (Orsay Museum) |
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| n.d. Redon's Studio graphite, pen, brown ink on cream paper 17.8 x 24.4 cm Louvre, Paris |
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| n.d. Redon's Studio graphite, pencil, pen, and India ink 17.8 x 23.8 cm Louvre, Paris |
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