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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La Tentation de saint Antoine (bk by..., 1896–1938

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La Tentation de saint Antoine (bk by..., 1896–1938

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Brünnhilde (Crépuscule des dieux), 1894

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Brünnhilde (Crépuscule des dieux), 1894

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Et le diable qui les séduisait, fut jeté..., 1899

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Et le diable qui les séduisait, fut jeté..., 1899

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Et un autre ange sortit du temple qui est au , 1899

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Et un autre ange sortit du temple qui est au , 1899

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Et il tomba du ciel une grande étoile,..., 1899

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Et il tomba du ciel une grande étoile,..., 1899

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Cellule auriculaire, 1893–1894

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Cellule auriculaire, 1893–1894

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Vieux chevalier, 1896

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Vieux chevalier, 1896

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Things that in his right hand

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Things that in his right hand

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Bouquet de fleurs

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Bouquet de fleurs

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La Vierge d'Aurore, 1890

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La Vierge d'Aurore, 1890

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Visage Derrière une fenêtre

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Visage Derrière une fenêtre

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Profil de femme avec fleurs, 1890

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Profil de femme avec fleurs, 1890

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Profile of a Woman (after Leonardo da Vinci's...

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Visage-Germination, 1888

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Visage-Germination, 1888

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Passage d'une Ame (from La Passante), 1891

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Passage d'une Ame (from La Passante), 1891

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La Mort: C'est moi qui te rends sérieuse..., 1896

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La Mort: C'est moi qui te rends sérieuse..., 1896

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L'Aile, 1893

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Yeux Clos, 1890

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Yeux Clos, 1890

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Profil de Lumière, 1886

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Profil de Lumière, 1886

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Saint Sébastien

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Saint Sébastien

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上帝的曙光

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上帝的曙光

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La Dormeuse

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Paysage aux environs de Peyrelebade

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Paysage aux environs de Peyrelebade

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Planches d'essai, Pl. 1, 1900

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Planches d'essai, Pl. 1, 1900

Sale Date: October 12, 2013

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