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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L'Aile, 1893

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Sale Date: October 30, 2007

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Hommage à Goya (complete set of 6), 1885

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Hommage à Goya (complete set of 6), 1885

Sale Date: October 30, 2007

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Profil de Lumiere, 1885

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Profil de Lumiere, 1885

Sale Date: November 1, 2007

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La coupe du devenir (L'enfant à la coupe), 1894

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La coupe du devenir (L'enfant à la coupe), 1894

Sale Date: November 8, 2007

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Femme nue au rocher

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Femme nue au rocher

Sale Date: November 7, 2007

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La rose et la marguerite

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La rose et la marguerite

Sale Date: November 7, 2007

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Le flambeau, 1875–1880

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Le flambeau, 1875–1880

Sale Date: November 8, 2007

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La tentation de Saint Antoine (bk by Gustave...

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La tentation de Saint Antoine (bk by Gustave...

Sale Date: October 3, 2007

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Brünnhilde (Crepuscule des Dieux), 1894

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Brünnhilde (Crepuscule des Dieux), 1894

Sale Date: September 20, 2007

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La vieille: Que crains tu? (from Tentation..., 1896

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La vieille: Que crains tu? (from Tentation..., 1896

Sale Date: September 20, 2007

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Le Sphynx, 1889

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Le Sphynx, 1889

Sale Date: September 20, 2007

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Profil de lumière, 1886

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Profil de lumière, 1886

Sale Date: September 26, 2007

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Portrait of Maurice Denis, 1903

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Portrait of Maurice Denis, 1903

Sale Date: September 5, 2007

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Paysage

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Sale Date: July 12, 2007

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Visage derrière une fenêtre

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Visage derrière une fenêtre

Sale Date: June 20, 2007

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Le bateau à la figure de proue

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Le bateau à la figure de proue

Sale Date: June 25, 2007

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Papillons, 1913

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Papillons, 1913

Sale Date: June 18, 2007

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Felinerie (from Dans le Rêve), 1879

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Felinerie (from Dans le Rêve), 1879

Sale Date: June 21, 2007

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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

Sale Date: June 14, 2007

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Parsifal, 1892

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Parsifal, 1892

Sale Date: June 14, 2007

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Christ, 1887

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Sale Date: June 14, 2007

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Le sommeil, 1898

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Le sommeil, 1898

Sale Date: June 7, 2007

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Les chimères (Frontispice), 1889

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Les chimères (Frontispice), 1889

Sale Date: June 7, 2007

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Partout des prunelles flamboient (Tentation..., 1888

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Partout des prunelles flamboient (Tentation..., 1888

Sale Date: June 7, 2007

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