Artist: Odilon Redon (1840 - 1916)
Nationality: French
Movement: Symbolism
Media: Lithography, Painting, Pastels
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Biography:
A French scholar born in Bordeaux, Odilon Redon used his knowledge of subjects ranging from architecture to natural history to create a body of Symbolist work. He began studying art by copying the works of Baudelaire and Delacroix in 1869. Until the 1890’s Redon worked primarily in black and white lithography and charcoal drawings. His first drawing exhibition was held in 1881, and was not well received. Many of his works were inspired by the poetry of Poe, Baudelaire, and Flaubert. Redon served as the first Vice President of the Societe des Artistes Independants in 1884. Eager to adopt color, Redon began working with oils and pastels in 1895, often creating botanical studies.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (40)
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Odilon Redon, Christ, 1887
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Odilon Redon, Beatrice, 1897
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Odilon Redon, Le Buddha, 1895
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Odilon Redon, Orpheus, circa 1905
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Odilon Redon, IX "...et le lia pour mille ans", 1899
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Odilon Redon, Profile de Lumiere, 1886
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Odilon Redon, L"Aile (The Wing), 1893
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Odilon Redon, Passage d"une Ame, 1891
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Odilon Redon, Cain and Abel, 1886
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Odilon Redon, Vieux Chevalier, 1896
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Odilon Redon, LumiËre (Light), 1893
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Odilon Redon, Cheval Aile, 1894
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Odilon Redon, Petit Prelat, 1888
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Odilon Redon, Voici le bonne deesse...., 1896
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Odilon Redon, AraignÈe (Spider), 1887
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Odilon Redon, Portrait of Maurice Denis, 1903
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Odilon Redon, Le Jour (Day), pl. 6 from the album, Songes (Dreams), 1891
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Odilon Redon, Brunnhilde (Crepuscule des Dieux / Twilight of the Gods), 1894
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Odilon Redon, Tentations de Sainte-Antoine, 2nd series: Atravers ses long cheveux, 1889
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Odilon Redon, XIII "... et que des yeux sans tete flottaient comme des mollusques", 1896
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The Chariot of Apollo, 1905-16 Odilon Redon (French, 1840-1916)Oil on canvas; 26 x 32 in.
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Odilon Redon, Je vis une lueur large et p‚le (I saw a glimmer of light, large and pale) from La Maison HantÈe, 1896
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Artist: Odilon Redon Title: Silence Date: n.d. Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions: H.29-1/4 x W.29-1/2
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Bouquet of Flowers, probably ca. 1905 Odilon Redon (French, 1840-1916)Pastel on paper; 31 5/8 x
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Etruscan Vase with Flowers, 1900-10 Odilon Redon (French, 1840-1916)Tempera on canvas; 32 x 23 1/4
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Odilon Redon, Frontispiece, plate I, in the book La Tentation de Saint-Antoine (Editions Ambroise Vollard, 1933), 1896
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Artist: Odilon Redon Title: Le Sphinx, mon regard que rienne peut dévier demeure tendu à
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Bouquet in a Chinese Vase, possibly 1912-14 Odilon Redon (French, 1840-1916)Oil on canvas; 25 1/2
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Flowers in a Chinese Vase, ca. 1906 Odilon Redon (French, 1840-1916)Oil on canvas; 28 5/8
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Artist: Odilon Redon Title: Etude Date: 19th century - 20th century Medium: pencil and crayon
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Pandora, probably ca. 1910 Odilon Redon (French, 1840-1916)Oil on canvas; 56 1/2 x 24 1/2
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Odilon Redon, La Tentation de Saint Antoine (Paris: Editions Ambroise Vollard, 1933), 1933
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Odilon Redon, Untitled, frontispiece, in the book La Damnation de l"artiste (The Damnation of the Artist) by Iwan Gilkin (Brussels: Edmond Deman, 1890)., 1890
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Odilon Redon, Untitled, frontispiece (canceled), in the book La Damnation de l"artiste (The Damnation of the Artist) by Iwan Gilkin (Brussels: Edmond Deman, 1890)., 1890
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Odilon Redon, "Helene - Ennoia" (Helen - Ennoia) , plate X, btwn. pgs. 98 and 99, in the book La Tentation de Saint-Antoine (Editions Ambroise Vollard, 1933), 1896
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Odilon Redon, La Damnation de l"artiste (The Damnation of the Artist) by Iwan Gilkin (Brussels: Edmond Deman, 1890)., 1890
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Odilon Redon, "Saint-Antoine: Au secours mon Dieu! "(Saint Anthony: Help me, O my God!), plate II, btwn. pgs. 14 and 15, in the book La Tentation de Saint-Antoine (Editions Ambroise Vollard, 1933), 1896
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Odilon Redon, "L"Intelligence fut a moi! Je devins le Buddha" (Intelligence was mine! I became the Buddha), plate XII, btwn. pgs. 130 and 131, in the book La Tentation de Saint-Antoine (Editions Ambroise Vollard, 1933), 1896
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Madame Arthur Fontaine (Marie Escudier), 1901 Odilon Redon (French, 1840-1916)Pastel on paper; 28 1/2 x
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Odilon Redon, Selon toute apparence c"Ètait une main de chair et de sang comme la mienne (From all apppearances it was a hand of flesh and blood like mine) ,pl. 4 from La Maison HantÈe, 1896

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Kröller-Müller Museum: Hommes de valeur
The world they depict is both real and imaginary, a world inhabited by dreamy fairies and nymphs as well as dark, ominous figures. Also on show are more traditional genres such as landscapes, still lifes and portraits rendered in the realistic vei...
Phillips Collection: William Scharf: Paintings, 1984-2000
Scharf's work, which brings to mind the paintings of Arshile Gorky and Mark Rothko, for whom he served as a studio assistant, has been considered second generation abstract expressionist. His sources and references, howeve...
Frick Collection: Six Paintings from the Former Collection of Mr. and Mrs. John Hay Whitney on Loan from the Greentree Foundation
The selection reflects the Whitneys’ interest in art produced in France in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, which formed the core of their renowned collection. The six paintings, displayed in the Garden Court, are accompan...
Frick Art and Historical Center: Post-Impressionist Prints: Paris in the 1890s
Late 19th-century Parisian painters experimented freely with new developments in printmaking and worked closely with skillful printmakers and publishers to produce some of the ...
University of Richmond Museums: Myth and Mirage: The Art of Avel de Knight
De Knight’s mostly figurative art has been called poetic, lyrical, and symbolist in style. Dream imagery reappears as frequently as classical and African art references. His veils of colors, created by various media, suggest movement, atmosphere, ...
Horse Hospital: Unquiet Voices: English and American Visionary Art 1903 - 2003
Obsessively out of time, each artist inhabits a sole focus within the subterfuge of their own dialogue - Vonn Stropp sees pre-raphaelite psychedelia; each world we're privileged to partake of is one we may know - the Freudian nightmares of Laurie ...
MONTREAL MUSEUM OF FINE ART: Gauguin to Toulouse-Lautrec: French Prints of the 1890s
The style current among these artists in the nineties was typified by bold design, cursive lines, vibrant patterns and brilliant planes of flat colour - an approach absorbed from infl...
Appleton Museum of Art: 20th Century Masterworks from the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), Toronto
Until now, this collection has not been available for loan during the 100-year history of the AGO. Following their exhibition at Appleton, these masterworks will return to Toronto and be re-installed in the AGO permanent collection galleries. The ...
Los Angeles County Museum: Post-Impressionist Prints: Paris in the 1890s
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art—LACMA—is pleased to present Post-Impressionist Prints: Paris in the 1890s. On loan from the Philadelphia Museum of Art, this exhibition features 122 prints by 33 artists, including 22 lithographs by Toulouse-L...
Van Gogh Museum: Jean-François Millet: Drawings
Millet was a talented draughtsman. Although he employed an academic technique, in a certain sense one can say he reinvented it: by depicting his models in their natural surroundings, by scrupulously reproducing the effects of light, and by care...
Van Gogh Museum: Xavier Mellery Paintings and Drawings
Born in Laeken (Brussels), Mellery trained with the painter and decorator Charle-Albert, acquiring the basic skills necessary for his career as a muralist. In 1870 he won the Prix de Rome, including a grant for a four-year study tour in Italy. His...
Centre Georges Pompidou: Hitchcock and Art: Fatal Coincidences
This spectacular exhibition will include 200 nineteenth- and twentieth-century artworks - paintings, drawings, prints, illustrated books and sculpture - and 300 cinema documents - production stills, posters, story boards, and set and ...
Montreal Museum of Fine Art: Hitchcock and Art: Fatal Coincidences
Hitchcock: The Man and His Art Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980) made more than fifty films. His name, synonymous with suspense, is legendary in the annals of cinematic history. He is ...
Sprengel Musuem: How you look at it: 20th-century Photography
The exhibition How you look at it. 20th-century Photography offers a chance to take stock. It starts by showing how photography has greatly increased in popularity in recent years, mainly obvious by its growing presence in museums w...
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art: TheFlower as Image: 150 Works by the World’s Greatest Artists
It is thus the ambition of the exhibition to show how, throughout the epoch of modern art, the artists use, treat, challenge, express and experiment with the flower and its potential in the artistic process. Or, to put it differently, with the flo...
Haus der Kunst: Masterpieces from Fra Angelico to Bonnard The Collection Dr. Gustav Rau
After the exhibition in Paris and Cologne, this priceless collection is now to be seen in its noticeably enlarged form in Haus der Kunst. A selection of 100 paintings demonstrates in an exemplary manner the development of European painting from th...
Museum of Modern Art: Abby Aldrich Rockefeller and Print Collecting: An Early Mission for MoMA
Beginning June 24, 1999, MoMA will present Abby Aldrich Rockefeller and Print Collecting: An Early Mission for MoMA, a display of approximately 100 prints that Mrs. Rockefeller enjoyed in her private collection, before donating them to th...

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