Odilon Redon

(French, 1840–1916)

Odilon Redon was a French Symbolist artist known for his pastels, prints, and paintings. He depicted a variety of motifs, including dreams, floral still lifes, landscapes, and mythological scenes. “My originality consists in bringing to life, in a human way, improbable beings and making them live according to the laws and probability,” he once said. Born Bertrand-Jean Redon on April 20, 1840 in Bordeaux, France, he studied with the artist Stanislas Gorin as a teenager. Gorin introduced him to the works of Eugène Delacroix, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, and Gustave Moreau. On his father’s wishes, Redon planned to study architecture at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, but failed the entrance exam. However, he remained in the city, reading the literary works of Gustave Flaubert, Edgar Allan Poe, and Charles Baudelaire, and briefly studying painting under Jean-Léon Gérôme. In 1865, he returned to his family home in Bordeaux and where he learned etching and lithography from the eccentric artist Rodolphe Bresdin. Returning to Paris in 1871, Redon worked exclusively in black and white until the 1890s. This sudden use of bright color is attributable to his close friendships with Paul Gauguin and Maurice Denis. He died on July 6, 1916 in Paris, France. In 2018, Redon’s still life Fleurs set an auction record for the artist when it sold for $4,092,500 at Christies. Today, his works are held in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, The Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the National Gallery in London, among others.

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Jeune fille et fleurs

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Jeune fille et fleurs

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Vase de fleurs

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Vase de fleurs

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Le Sommeil, 1898

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Le Sommeil, 1898

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Elle tire de sa poitrine une éponge toute..., 1896

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Elle tire de sa poitrine une éponge toute..., 1896

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Apocalypse de Saint-Jean, 1899

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Apocalypse de Saint-Jean, 1899

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Princesse Madeleine (Petite Madone), 1892

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Princesse Madeleine (Petite Madone), 1892

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Hantise, 1894

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Hantise, 1894

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L'intelligence fut à moi ! Je devins le..., 1896

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L'intelligence fut à moi ! Je devins le..., 1896

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Serpent-Auréole, 1890

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Serpent-Auréole, 1890

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Je me suis enfoncé dans la solitude...., 1896

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Je me suis enfoncé dans la solitude...., 1896

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C'est le diable, portant sous ses deux ailes , 1888

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C'est le diable, portant sous ses deux ailes , 1888

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Christ, 1887

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Christ, 1887

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Tentation de Saint Antoine, première série, 1888

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Tentation de Saint Antoine, première série, 1888

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Perversité, 1891

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Perversité, 1891

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Germination (i); Vision (ii); planches..., 1879

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Germination (i); Vision (ii); planches..., 1879

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Quand s'éveillait la vie au fond de la..., 1883

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Quand s'éveillait la vie au fond de la..., 1883

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Et l'homme parut, interrogeant le sol d'où..., 1883

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Et l'homme parut, interrogeant le sol d'où..., 1883

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