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 10 of 13 on the works of Odilon Redon:
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| c1905 Wild flowers pastel on brown wove paper coated with sawdust 64.1 x 50 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
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| 1906 Naked girl pastel on paper 51 x 36 cm |
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| 1906 Ophelia pastel on blue-grey wove paper 63.5 x 22.3 cm Art Institute of Chicago, IL |
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| c1906 Vase of Flowers (Pink Background) oil on canvas 72.7 x 54 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| c1907 Jacob and the Angel oil on board 47 x 41.6 cm MoMA, New York |
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| c1907 Pegasus and the Hydra oil on cardboard 47 x 63.1 cm Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands |
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| c1907 The Window oil on canvas 81 x 61.3 cm MoMA, New York |
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| 1908 The red screen (with Pegasus) tempera on canvas (three panels) 173.5 x 238 cm Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands |
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| c1908 Large Prayer Rug oil on canvas 175.8 x 108.7 cm Musée d'Orsay, Paris © RMN-Grand Palais (Orsay Museum) |
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| c1908 Prayer Rug oil on canvas 66 x x 92.8 cm Musée d'Orsay, Paris © RMN-Grand Palais (Orsay Museum) |
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| c1908 Prayer Rug oil on canvas 81 x 54 cm Musée d'Orsay, Paris © RMN-Grand Palais (Orsay Museum) |
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| c1908 The Centaur and the Dragon oil on canvas mounted on cardboard 25.9 x 18.4 cm Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands |
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| 1909 The Chariot of Apollo oil on cardboard 100 x 80 cm Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux |
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| c1909-10 Flowers in a Black Vase pastel on paper 87.6 x 68.5 cm Dallas Museum of Art, Texas |
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| c1909-10 Roger and Angélique oil on cradled panel 29.9 x 29.2 cm Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands |
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| c1909 Flowers in a stoneware pot pastel on paper 54.6 x 41.9 cm |
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| before 1910 Mystical Saint Sebastian watercolour and gouache on off-white wove paper 23.4 x 15.3 cm Harvard Art Museums - Fogg Museum Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College |
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| 1910 Saint Sebastien oil on canvas 92.3 x 59.3 cm Kunstmuseum Basel |
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| 1910 The Crown charcoal and pastel on paper Musée d'Orsay, Paris |
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| 1910 The Sacred Heart pastel on chamois paper 60 x 46.5 cm Musée d'Orsay, Paris © RMN-Grand Palais (Orsay Museum) |
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| 1910 Violette Heymann pastel on grey wove paper 72 x 92 cm The Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio |
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| c1910 Chariot of Apollo chalk and charcoal on paper 91.5 x 77 cm Musée d'Orsay, Paris |
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| c1910 Butterflies oil on canvas 73.9 x 54.9 cm MoMA, New York |
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| c1910 Apparition oil on canvas 50 x 65 cm Princeton University Art Museum |
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| c1910 Butterflies oil on canvas 73.9 x 54.9 cm MoMA, New York |
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| c1910-12 Evocation of Butterflies oil on canvas 55.2 x 41.3 cm Detroit Institute of Art, MI |
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| 1910-12 Saint Sebastian oil on canvas 144 x 62.5 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
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| 1910-12 Pandora oil on canvas 143.5 x 62.9 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
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| 1910-12 Large Green Vase with Mixed Flowers pastel on paper 74.3 x 62.2 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA |
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| 1910-11 Profile of a young girl against a background of arches oil on canvas, sketch 71 x 53.5 cm Musée d'Orsay, Paris © RMN-Grand Palais (Orsay Museum) |
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| 1910 Young Woman in Profile pastel and charcoal(?) on green prepared wove Paper 49.2 x 37.9 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
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| c1910 Christ on the Cross oil on cardboard 51.5 x 46.1 cm Musée d'Orsay, Paris © RMN-Grand Palais (Orsay Museum) |
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| c1910 Dream watercolour and gouache on paper 26 x 22.5 cm Dallas Museum of Art, Texas |
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| c1910 Flowers in a Vase oil on canvas 55.9 x 39.4 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
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| c1910 Flowers in a Vase pastel on paper 36.8 x 31.2 cm |
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| c1910 Head of Man in Shell watercolour, with black chalk and pen and brown-black ink, on ivory wove paper 24.7 x 17.2 cm |
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| c1910 Jacob wrestling with the Angel oil on wood panel 27.3 x 13 cm Musée d'Orsay, Paris © RMN-Grand Palais (Orsay Museum) |
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| c1910 Roger and Angelica pastel on paper on canvas 92.7 x 73 cm MoMA, New York |
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| c1910 Saint Sébastien pastel on paper 29.7 x 20.8 cm Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux |
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| c1910 Strange Flowers oil on cardboard 50.8 x 26.5 cm Musée d'Orsay, Paris © RMN-Grand Palais (Orsay Museum) |
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| c1910 Underwater Vision oil on canvas 93.3 x 74.3 cm MoMA, New York |
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| c1910 Wild Flowers in a Vase pastel on board 50.1 x 66.6 cm Dallas Museum of Art, Texas |
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| 1911 Portrait of Madame Redon pastel 72 x 55.1 cm Musée d'Orsay, Paris © RMN-Grand Palais (Orsay Museum) |
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| c1911 Silence oil on prepared paper 54.6 x 54 cm MoMA, New York |
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| c1911 Stained glass cardboard oil on canvas 143.5 x 62.5 cm Musée d'Orsay, Paris © RMN-Grand Palais (Orsay Museum) |
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| 1912 Parsifal pastel on paper 64 x 49 cm Musée d'Orsay, Paris © RMN-Grand Palais (Orsay Museum) |
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| 1912 The Seashell pastel on paper 52 x 57.8 cm Musée d'Orsay, Paris |
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| c1912-14 Bouquet in a Chinese Vase oil on canvas 64.8 x 49.8 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| c1912-14 Vase of Flowers pastel and pencil on coloured paper 73 x 53.7 cm MoMA, New York |
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