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Odilon Redon (born Bertrand Redon; French: [ɔdilɔ̃ ʁədɔ̃]; 20 April 1840 – 6 July 1916) was a French Symbolist artist. Early in his career, both before and after fighting in the Franco-Prussian War, Redon worked almost exclusively in charcoal and lithography, works known as his noirs.
The eyes closed in sleep or death suggest an inner world, dream, absence or apparition, all fertile themes in the work of Odilon Redon, as he explains in A soi-même, his diary published in 1922. The highly diluted paint makes it almost immaterial, letting the grain of the canvas show through.
Odilon Redon (born Bertrand-Jean Redon; French: [ʁədɔ̃]; April 20, 1840 – July 6, 1916) was a French symbolist painter, printmaker, draughtsman and pastellist. Odilon Redon was born in Bordeaux, Aquitaine, to a prosperous family.
- French
- April 20, 1840
- Bordeaux, France
- July 6, 1916
Nov 1, 2022 · Media in category "Odilon Redon". The following 87 files are in this category, out of 87 total. "Exhibition of paintings, pastels, drawings... by Odilon Redon, november 1928, organized by De Hauke & Co. Inc.", New York, De Hauke & Co. Inc, 1928.jpg 968 × 1,296; 408 KB. La Mort Mon ironie depasse toutes les autres!
Death: “My Irony Surpasses All Others” Date: 1888. Artist: Odilon Redon French, 1840-1916
Portrait of Ari Redon, c. 1898. Odilon Redon. Death: “My irony surpasses all others!”, plate 3 of 6, 1889. Odilon Redon. The Misshapen Polyp Floated on the Shores, a Sort of Smiling and Hideous Cyclops, plate 3 of 8 from “Les Origines”, 1883. Odilon Redon. A Mask Sounds the Funeral Knell, plate three from To Edgar Poe, 1882.
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Odilon Redon (born April 20, 1840, Bordeaux, France—died July 6, 1916, Paris) was a French Symbolist painter, lithographer, and etcher of considerable poetic sensitivity and imagination, whose work developed along two divergent lines.
