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 9 of 13 on the works of Odilon Redon:
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| c1900 The Black Sun oil with incising on board 32.4 x 23.8 cm MoMA, New York |
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| c1900 The Fates oil on paper mounted on panel 33.1 x 25.5 cm Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands |
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| c1900 The red boat oil on wood panel 32 x 40.5 cm Musée d'Orsay, Paris © RMN-Grand Palais (Orsay Museum) |
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| c1900 The Siren oil and gold powder on fibreboard 27 x 22 cm Kunstmuseum Basel |
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| c1900 Underwater vision pastel on grey paper 65.8 x 54 cm Musée d'Orsay, Paris © RMN-Grand Palais (Orsay Museum) |
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| 1901 Daisies and mountain ash berries oil, tempera, charcoal and pastel on canvas 122.5 x 152.3 cm Musée d'Orsay, Paris © RMN-Grand Palais (Orsay Museum) |
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| 1901 Daisies oil, tempera, charcoal and pastel on canvas 123 x 149.5 cm Musée d'Orsay, Paris © RMN-Grand Palais (Orsay Museum) |
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| 1901 Figure, yellow flower oil, tempera, charcoal and pastel on canvas 243.8 x 58.3 cm Musée d'Orsay, Paris © RMN-Grand Palais (Orsay Museum) |
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| 1901 Figure oil, tempera, charcoal and pastel on canvas 244.5 x 58.5 cm Musée d'Orsay, Paris © RMN-Grand Palais (Orsay Museum) |
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| 1901 Large panel with plant decoration oil, tempera, charcoal and pastel on canvas 244 x 103.7 cm Musée d'Orsay, Paris © RMN-Grand Palais (Orsay Museum) |
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| 1901 Large panel with plant decoration oil, tempera, charcoal and pastel on canvas 250.7 x 89.4 cm Musée d'Orsay, Paris © RMN-Grand Palais (Orsay Museum) |
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| 1901 Madame Arthur Fontaine (Marie Escudier, born 1865) pastel on paper 72.4 x 75.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| 1901 Small Grey Panel oil, tempera, charcoal and pastel on canvas 41.5 x 55.3 cm Musée d'Orsay, Paris © RMN-Grand Palais (Orsay Museum) |
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| 1901 Small Grey Panel oil, tempera, charcoal and pastel on canvas 43 x 55.5 cm Musée d'Orsay, Paris © RMN-Grand Palais (Orsay Museum) |
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| 1901 The yellow flowering branch oil, tempera, charcoal and pastel on canvas 247.5 x 163.5 cm Musée d'Orsay, Paris © RMN-Grand Palais (Orsay Museum) |
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| 1901 Tree on a yellow background oil, tempera, charcoal and pastel on canvas 249.5 x 185.5 cm Musée d'Orsay, Paris © RMN-Grand Palais (Orsay Museum) |
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| 1901 Trees on a yellow background oil, tempera, charcoal and pastel on canvas 247.5 x 173 cm Musée d'Orsay, Paris © RMN-Grand Palais (Orsay Museum) |
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| 1901 Vase of Flowers oil on canvas 65.4 x 54 cm Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA |
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| 1902-03 Anemones and Tulips pastel on tan paper 54.8 x 46.4 cm Brooklyn Museum, New York |
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| c1902 The Window pastel and charcoal on coloured paper 52.7 x 37.1 cm MoMA, New York |
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| 1903 Portrait of Mademoiselle Jeanne Chaîne pastel on paper 79.5 x 69 cm Kunstmuseum Basel |
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| 1903-05 Paul Gauguin oil on canvas 65 x 54 cm Musée d'Orsay, Paris © RMN-Grand Palais (Orsay Museum) |
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| c1903-10 Orpheus pastel 68.8 x 56.8 cm |
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| c1903 Flower Clouds pastel, with touches of stumping, incising, and brushwork, on blue-grey wove paper 44.5 x 54.2 cm Art Institute of Chicago, IL |
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| 1904 Bather etching and drypoint in red-brown on cream Japanese wove paper 13.4 x 6.3 cm (image) |
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| 1904 Bather etching and drypoint on ivory wove paper 13.3 x 6.3 cm (image) |
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| 1904 Buddha glue paint on canvas 159 x 121.1 cm Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam |
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| 1904 Eve oil on canvas 61 x 47 cm Musée d'Orsay, Paris © RMN-Grand Palais (Orsay Museum) |
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| 1904 Stained glass Temple charcoal, pastel and stump on cardboard 87 x 68 cm Musée d'Orsay, Paris © RMN-Grand Palais (Orsay Museum) |
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| 1904 Vase with flowers (and a sketch of a face) ink, chalk and watercolour on paper 30.6 x 23 cm Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands |
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| 1904-10 Andromeda oil on panel 56 x 54 cm Art Institute of Chicago, IL |
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| c1904 The Death of Orpheus oil on panel 29.2 x 75.6 cm Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College |
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| 1905 Portrait of A.M.L. Bonger-van der Linden oil on canvas 72.5 x x 59.5 cm Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| 1905 Still Life with Flowers oil on canvas 92.7 x 65.5 cm Art Institute of Chicago, IL |
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| 1905 The Red Tree glue paint on canvas 173 x 87.5 cm Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam |
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| 1905 Vase of Flowers oil on fabric 73 x 59 cm |
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| c1905-08 Ophelia among the Flowers pastel on paper 64 x 91 cm The National Gallery, London |
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| c1905-10 Jacob Wrestling with the Angel oil on canvas 143.5 x 62.2 cm Brooklyn Museum, New York |
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| 1905-16 The Chariot of Apollo oil on canvas 66 x 81.3 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| c1905 Apparition oil on wood panel with wood cradle at top and bottom 67 x 40 cm MoMA, New York |
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| c1905 Initiation to Study - Two Young Ladies oil on canvas 93.9 x 74.6 cm Dallas Museum of Art, TX |
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| c1905 Orpheus pastel on grey laid paper laid on canvas 59.5 x 46.8 cm Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA |
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| c1905 Pansies pastel on brown paper 55.7 x 47.1 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
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| c1905 Portrait of Madame Odilon Redon pastel and sanguine on beige paper 55 x 44.5 cm Musée d'Orsay, Paris © RMN-Grand Palais (Orsay Museum) |
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| c1905 The Buddha pastel 90 x 73 cm RMN-Grand Palais (Orsay Museum) |
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| c1905 The Yellow Sail pastel on paper 58.2 x 46.9 cm Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana |
1900-08 Profile portraits:
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| 1900 Edouard Vuillard lithograph in black on heavy ivory wove paper 19.5 x 16.3 cm (image) |
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| 1902 Pierre Bonnard lithograph 14.6 x 12.3 cm (image) |
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| 1902 Pierre Bonnard lithograph in black on heavy rosy-cream wove paper 14.5 x 12.3 cm (image) |
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| 1903 Maurice Denis lithograph in black on light grey China paper 15.3 x 13.5 cm (image) |
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| 1903 Paul Sérusier lithograph in black on light grey China paper 16 x 13.5 cm (image) |
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| 1903 Ricardo Viñes lithograph in black on heavy cream wove paper 13.5 x 11.4 cm (image) |
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| 1904 Juliette Dodu lithograph in black on light grey China paper 14.6 x 9 cm (image) |
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| 1904 Roger Marx lithograph in black on light grey China paper 25 x 14.5 cm (image) |
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| 1908 Miguel Llobet (Classical guitarist) lithograph in black on light grey China paper 9.5 x 9.5 cm (image) |
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