Odilon Redon first became known for dark charcoal drawings and lithographs populated by eyes, floating heads, monsters and dreamlike organisms. From the 1890s onward, pastel and oil opened his work into intensely colored flowers, mythologies and spiritual images.
Drawing; lithography; pastel; painting
Works in Collections
Flower Clouds
c. 1903 · Pastel, with touches of stumping, incising, and brushwork, on blue-gray wove paper with multi-colored fibers altered to tan, perimeter mounted to cardboard
44.5 × 54.2 cm (17 9/16 × 21 3/8 in.)
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Major Works
- 1882The Eye Like a Strange Balloon Mounts Toward Infinity
- 1881The Smiling Spider
- c. 1914The Cyclops
- 1890Closed Eyes
- 1905–08Ophelia among the Flowers
- c. 1914Pandora
- 1904Buddha
- c. 1912Vase of Flowers
- 1900Pegasus
- 1880Spirit of the Forest
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