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: (96)
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Odilon Redon Vieux Chevalier Lithograph 1896
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Odilon Redon Le Buddha Lithograph 1895
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Odilon Redon Cain and Abel Etching 1886
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Odilon Redon Petit Prelat Drypoint 1888
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Odilon Redon Passage d'une Ame etching 1891
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Odilon Redon Profile de Lumiere Lithograph 1886
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Odilon Redon L'Aile (The Wing) Lithograph 1893
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Odilon Redon IX "...et le lia pour mille ans" Lithograph 1899
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Odilon Redon Cheval Aile Lithograph 1894
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Odilon Redon LumiËre (Light) Lithograph 1893
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Odilon Redon Voici le bonne deesse.... Lithograph 1896
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Odilon Redon Christ lithograph on chine appliquÈ 1887
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Odilon Redon Portrait of Maurice Denis Lithograph 1903
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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 Brunnhilde (Crepuscule des Dieux / Twilight of the Gods) 1894
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Odilon Redon Beatrice Color lithograph on chine collee 1897
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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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Odilon Redon Orpheus Pastel on laid paper mounted on canvas circa 1905
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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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Odilon Redon AraignÈe (Spider) lithograph 1887
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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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Artist: Odilon Redon Title: Le Sphinx, mon regard que rienne peut dévier demeure tendu à
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Odilon Redon Tentations de Sainte-Antoine, 2nd series: Atravers ses long cheveux Lithograph 1889
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Odilon Redon Le Jour (Day), pl. 6 from the album, Songes (Dreams) lithograph on chine collÈ 1891
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Odilon Redon XIII "... et que des yeux sans tete flottaient comme des mollusques" Lithograph on chine fixe 1896
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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 Je vis une lueur large et p‚le (I saw a glimmer of light, large and pale) from La Maison HantÈe lithograph on chine appliquÈ 1896
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Odilon Redon Frontispiece, plate I, in the book La Tentation de Saint-Antoine (Editions Ambroise Vollard, 1933) Lithograph on Arches wove paper 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 "Antoine: Quel est le be but de tout cela? Le Diable: Il n'y a pas de but!" (Anthony: "What is the object of all this?" The Devil: "There is no object!"), plate XVIII, btwn. pgs. 176 and 177, in the book La Tenta
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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) Lithograph on Arches wove paper 1896
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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). Lithograph on Japan imperial paper 1890
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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) Lithograph on Arches wove p
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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) Lithograph on Arches wove paper 1896
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Odilon Redon "La Mort: C'est moi qui te rends serieuse; enlacons- nous" (Death: "It is I who make you serious; let us embrace each other"), plate XX, btwn. pgs. 190 and 191, in the book La Tentation de Saint-Antoine (Editions Ambroise Vo
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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). Lithograph on Japan imperial paper 1890
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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 lithograph on chine appliquÈ 1896
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Odilon Redon "J'ai quelquefois apercu dans le ciel comme des formes d'esprits" (I have sometimes seen in the sky what seemed like forms of spirits), plate XXI, btwn. pgs. 16 and 17, in the book La Tentation de Saint-Antoine (Editions Ambroise Voll
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Odilon Redon "Je suis toujours la grande Isis! Nul n'a encore souleve mon voile! Mon fruit est le soleil! "(I am still the great Isis! Nobody has ever yet lifted my veil! My offspring is the sun), plate XVI, btwn. pgs. 146 and 147, in the book
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Odilon Redon "Je me suis enfonce dans la solitude. J'habitais l'arbre derriere moi" (I plunged into solitude. I dwelt in the tree behind me), plate IX, btwn. pgs. 90 and 91, in the book La Tentation de Saint-Antoine (Editions Ambroise Vollard, 1
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Odilon Redon "Immediatement surgissent trois deesses" (Immediately three goddesses arise) , plate XI, btwn. pgs. 122 and 123, in the book La Tentation de Saint-Antoine (Editions Ambroise Vollard, 1933) Lithograph on Arches wove paper 1896
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Odilon Redon "Les betes de la mer rondes comme des outres" (The beasts of the sea, round like leather bottles), plate XXII, btwn. pgs. 198 and 199, in the book La Tentation de Saint-Antoine (Editions Ambroise Vollard, 1933) Lithograph on Arches w
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Odilon Redon - Sita c. 1905 pastel The Art Institute of Chicago French
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Odilon Redon - Butterflies c.1910 oil on canvas The Museum of Modern Art French
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Odilon Redon "Voici la Bonne-Deesse, l'Ideenne des montagnes" (Here is the Good Goddess, the Idaean mother of the mountains), plate XV, btwn. pgs. 138 and 139, in the book La Tentation de Saint-Antoine (Editions Ambroise Vollard, 1933) Lithograph
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Odilon Redon "Des peuples divers habitent les pays de l'Ocean" (Different people inahbit the countries of the Ocean), plate XXIII, btwn. pgs. 192 and 193, in the book La Tentation de Saint-Antoine (Editions Ambroise Vollard, 1933) Lithograph on Ar
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Odilon Redon - Pandora 1910-1912 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art French
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Odilon Redon - Andromeda 1912 Oil on Canvas Arkansas Arts Center French
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Odilon Redon "La Vieille: Que crains-tu? Un large trou noir! Il est vide peut-etre?" (The Old Woman: "What are you afraid of? A wide black hole! It is empty perhaps!", plate XIX, btwn. pgs. 186 and 187, in the book La Tentation de Sai
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Odilon Redon "Dans l'ombre des gens pleurent et prient entoures d'autres qui les exhortent" (In the shadow are people, weeping and praying, surrounded by others who are exhorting them), plate VI, btwn. pgs. 88 and 89, in the book La Tentation de
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Odilon Redon "Et il distingue une plaine aride at mamelonneuse" (And he discerns an arid, knoll-covered plain) , plate VII, btwn. pgs. 6 and 7, in the book La Tentation de Saint-Antoine (Editions Ambroise Vollard, 1933) Lithograph on Arches wove p
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Odilon Redon "Et que des yeux sans tete flottaient comme des mollusques" (And that eyes without heads were floating like mollusks), plate XIII, btwn. pgs. 194 and 195, in the book La Tentation de Saint-Antoine (Editions Ambroise Vollard, 1933) Li
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Odilon Redon - Silence 1911 oil on paper attache Minneapolis Institute of Arts French
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Odilon Redon "Il tombe dans l'abime, la tete en bas" (He falls head first into the abyss), plate XVII, btwn. pgs. 158 and 159, in the book La Tentation de Saint-Antoine (Editions Ambroise Vollard, 1933) Lithograph on Arches wove paper 1896
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Odilon Redon "Mes baisers ont le gout d'un fruit qui se frondait dans ton coeur! . . . Tu me dedaignes! Adieu!" (My kisses have the taste of fruit which would melt in your heart! . . You disdain me! Farewell!) , plate IV, btwn. pgs. 38 and 39, in
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Odilon Redon "Et partout ce sont des colonnes de basalte. . . la lumiere tombe des voutes" (And on every side are columns of basalt. . . the light falls from the vaulted roof) , plate III, btwn. pgs. 62 and 63, in the book La Tentation de Saint-An
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Odilon Redon "Des fleurs tombent, et la tete d'un python parait" (Flowers fall and the head of a python appears) , plate V, btwn. pgs. 82 and 83, in the book La Tentation de Saint-Antoine (Editions Ambroise Vollard, 1933) Lithograph on Arches wov
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Odilon Redon "Le jour enfin parait,. . . et dans le disque meme du soleil, rayonne le face de Jesus-Christ" (Day appears at last, . . . and in the very disk of the sun shines the face of Jesus Christ), plate XXIV, btwn. pgs. 202 and 203, in the b
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Odilon Redon "Oannes: "Moi, la premiere conscience du chaos, j'ai surgi de l'abime pour durcir la matiere, pour regler les formes" (Oannes: I, the first consciousness of chaos, arose from the abyss to harden matter, to regulate forms), plate
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Odilon Redon - Les Oeillets (Carnations) n.d. pastel on paper Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art at The University of Oklahoma French
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Odilon Redon - Vase of Flowers 1900-1916 pastel Milwaukee Art Museum French
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Odilon Redon - Le char d'Apollon 1907-1910 oil on panel The Fitzwilliam Museum French
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Odilon Redon - Symbolic Head c. 1890 oil on paper mounted Cleveland Museum of Art French
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Odilon Redon - Saint Sebastian 1910-1912 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art French
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Odilon Redon - Beasts at the Bottom of the Sea n.d. pastel on paper New Orleans Museum of Art French
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Odilon Redon - Evocation of Butterflies c. 1910-12 oil on canvas The Detroit Institute of Art French
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Odilon Redon - Green Death c. 1905 oil on canvas The Museum of Modern Art French
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Odilon Redon - Vase of Flowers c. 1905 oil on fabric Cleveland Museum of Art French
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Odilon Redon - Breton Village c. 1890 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art French
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Odilon Redon - Flowers in a Vase c. 1910 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art French
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Odilon Redon - Evocation of Roussel c. 1912 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art French
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Odilon Redon, French, 1840-1916 Fear La Peur 1866 Etching on cream wove paper Image: 11
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Odilon Redon, French, 1840-1916 La Bretonne 1895 Charcoal on paper Sight: 43 x 35.5 cm
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Odilon Redon, French, 1840-1916 Tree Arbre 1892 Lithograph on chine collé Image/chine collé: 47.7 x
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Odilon Redon La Tentation de Saint Antoine (Paris: Editions Ambroise Vollard, 1933) Book with 23 lithographs on Arches wove paper; loose in wrappers with lettering and detail on cover; chemise is half bound with black morocco leather and grey laid paper,
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Odilon Redon La Damnation de l'artiste (The Damnation of the Artist) by Iwan Gilkin (Brussels: Edmond Deman, 1890). Book with 2 lithographs on Japan imperial paper; half bound in black morocco leather and marbled paper, original marbled wrapers with gold-
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Odilon Redon - Dream Finished by Death n.d. charcoal and chalk o The Museum of Modern Art French
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Odilon Redon - Head of Christ in a Colored Frame 19th century chalk, watercolor, g Arkansas Arts Center French
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Odilon Redon, French, 1840-1916 Large Green Vase with Mixed Flowers 1910-12 Pastel on paper 74.3
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Odilon Redon - La Mort: Mon Ironie Depasse Toutes les Autres! 1889 lithograph Smith College Museum of Art French
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Odilon Redon, French, 1840-1916 Centaur 1895-1900 Pastel on canvas 73 x 60.3 cm (28 3/4
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Rodolphe Bresdin Le ruisseau etching 1880
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Rodolphe Bresdin The Good Samaritan Lithograph 1861
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Rodolphe Bresdin La Comedie de la Mort lithograph 1854
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Rodolphe Bresdin Pavillon de ferme etching 1861
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Charles Vernier Actualities: Le Despoir de Monsieur Odilon Barrot color lithograph 19th century
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Rodolphe Bresdin Les Chasseurs Surpris par le Mort etching 1857
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Rodolphe Bresdin La Maison Hantee a Arcachon lithograph 1871
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Rodolphe Bresdin Rest on the Flight into Egypt, with laden Donkey etching 19th century
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Rodolphe Bresdin Rest on the Flight into Egypt, with laden donkey lithograph 19th century
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Rodolphe Bresdin La cavaliËre orientale dans les montagnes pen and black ink on tracing paper on cardboard 1858
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William T. Wiley Real Time for Redon charcoal 1976
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Jacques Callot Circumcision of Christ, January 1; Festival of the Name of Jesus Christ, January 1; St. Odilon, Abbot, January 1; St. Euphrosina Virgin January 2; first plate from the book, Les IMAGES DE TOUS/LES SAINCTS ET SAINTES /DE L*ANN…E... (I

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