Odilon Redon

Selections from the journals of the nineteenth-century French artist describe his feelings about art, creativity, and painters of the past, as well as his contemporaries

Notes on Life, Art and Artists

To Myself

One of the most expressive artists of the Symbolism movement, Odilon Redon (1840-1916) drew upon his own fantastic inner world to transform common subjects into strange, eerie images and to depict spiders and serpents, skeletons and skulls, gnomes and monsters, all in a distinctive style of controlled, delicate realism. Modern devotees regard Redon's translation of the subconscious into visual reality as a precursor to Surrealism and this modestly priced volume offers a rich compilation of the influential artist's graphic works. Its 209 illustrations, 172 lithographs, plus 37 etchings and engravings, offer unforgettable scenes of fantasy and mystery.

209 Lithographs, Etchings and Engravings

The Graphic Works of Odilon Redon

Graphic Works].

The French painter, draftsman and mystic, Odilon Redon, was already in his forties, an "eminence grise," when a group of young colleagues asked him to the 1884 founding of the Societe des Independants. He was in his seventies when his work appeared in the 1913 Armory show, which woke American audiences to a new aesthetic. And while he lived only a few years longer, his work carried forward, not only in collections around the world, but in his influence on major artists including Cezanne, Degas, Gaugin and Matisse. In its darkness and abstraction, Redon's work remains exceptionally relevant today: his spiders, floating heads and glowing conch shells in near-empty frames could easily be contemporary. His figures and objects from the worlds of antiquity, Christianity and nature are often veiled in iridescent clouds of intense color, to enigmatic and mystical effect. In charcoal drawings and lithographs, Redon devoted himself to the human subconscious, with its fears and nightmares, and produced an urgent and eerie Symbolist oeuvre. This substantial retrospective underlines his central importance for an emergent Modernism. Redon is credited not just with changing the course of Impressionism, but with influencing artists as disparate as Duchamp, the Surrealists and Jasper Johns.

As in a Dream ; [in Conjunction with the Exhibition "Odilon Redon", Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, January 28 - April 29, 2007]

Lithographien. Ausstellung der Galerie im Tacispalais Innsbruck, 3. Juli bis 19. August 1984

Odilo Redon 1840-1916

Jean Vialla

La vie et l'œuvre d'Odilon Redon

An Exhibition

Prints and Portfolios by Odilon Redon (1840-1916)

Rodolphe Rapetti

Published on the occasion of the largest ever Odilon Redon retrospective, held at the Grand Palais in Paris in the spring of 2011, this chunky but pocketbook-size paperback volume reproduces all 256 artworks included in the landmark exhibition. It begins with Redon's "Self-Portrait" of 1867 and then examines his famous suites of lithographs, including Dans le Rêve and the classic illustrations to Poe, Huysmans and Flaubert. All of the great pastels and oils are here, in full color, as well as lesser-known works like painted screens; throughout, each of the works is accompanied by the captions used in the exhibition, which provide details of provenance and, where relevant, edition size.

Odilon Redon: L'Expo

Musée de l'Orangerie

Odilon Redon ... 3 Mei-23 Juni 1957. [An Illustrated Exhibition Catalogue. With Introductory Essays by Various Authors in Dutch and French.].

Redon

Art Institute of Chicago

Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)

Douglas W. Druick

Art Institute (Chicago, Ill.)

The work of French Symbolist painter Odilon Redon has long been seen as a direct link between the 19th century and the development of modern art. Now Douglas W. Druick, Searle curator of European paintings at The Art Institute of Chicago, has gathered more than 500 color and black-and-white reproductions of the artist's well-known and more obscure works.

Prince of Dreams, 1840-1916

Ian Woodner Collection

Jean Selz

"In the late nineteenth century there were a group of painters who attempted to put meaning and spiritual depth into their pictures in reaction to the excessive simplicity and brightness of Impressionism. One of the participants in this movement, known as Symbolism, was Odilon Redon (1840-1916). A notable artist who developed his own unique visionary world, he holds an important position in the history of modern art."--Foreword.

Gathers Redon's pastel portraits, flower pictures, and religious works, and shares his comments on art

Pastels

Sharon R. Harrison

The Etchings Of Odilon Redon

Ted Gott

National Gallery of Victoria

Illustrated catalogue of the National Gallery of Victoria's exhibition of lithographs by Redon (1840-1916). Includes a preface by Dario Gamboni, a Redon chronology and articles on his technique and other aspects of his work.

The Graphic Worlds of Odilon Redon

The Enchanted Stone

Paul Gauguin - The Cloisonnistes - Vincent van Gogh - The Nabis - Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.

Odilon Redon

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