Odilon Redon Painting Reproductions 1 of 2
1840-1916
French Symbolist Painter
Odilon Redon (April 22, 1840 - July 6, 1916) was a Symbolist painter, born in Bordeaux, Aquitaine, France.
Redon started drawing as a young child, and at the age of 10 he was awarded a drawing prize at school. At age 15, he began formal study in drawing but on the insistence of his father he switched to architecture. His failure to pass the entrance exams at Paris’ École des Beaux-Arts ended any plans for a career as an architect, although he would later study there under Jean-Léon Gerôme.
Back home in his native Bordeaux, he took up sculpture, and Rodolphe Bresdin instructed him in etching and lithography. However, his artistic career was interrupted in 1870 when he joined the army to serve in the Franco-Prussian War.
At the end of the war, he moved to Paris, working almost exclusively in charcoal and lithography. It would not be until 1878 that his work gained any recognition with Guardian Spirit of the Waters, and he published his first album of lithographs, titled Dans le Rêve, in 1879. Still, Redon remained relatively unknown until the appearance in 1884 of a cult novel by Joris-Karl Huysmans titled, A rebours (Against Nature). The story featured a decadent aristocrat who collected Redon's drawings.
In the 1890s, he began to use pastel and oils, which dominated his works for the rest of his life. In 1899, he exhibited with the Nabis at Durand-Ruel's.
In 1903 he was awarded the Legion of Honor.
His popularity increased when a catalogue of etchings and lithographs was published by André Mellerio in 1913 and that same year, he was given the largest single representation at the New York Armory Show.
In 1923 Mellerio published: Odilon Redon: Peintre Dessinateur et Graveur.
Redon started drawing as a young child, and at the age of 10 he was awarded a drawing prize at school. At age 15, he began formal study in drawing but on the insistence of his father he switched to architecture. His failure to pass the entrance exams at Paris’ École des Beaux-Arts ended any plans for a career as an architect, although he would later study there under Jean-Léon Gerôme.
Back home in his native Bordeaux, he took up sculpture, and Rodolphe Bresdin instructed him in etching and lithography. However, his artistic career was interrupted in 1870 when he joined the army to serve in the Franco-Prussian War.
At the end of the war, he moved to Paris, working almost exclusively in charcoal and lithography. It would not be until 1878 that his work gained any recognition with Guardian Spirit of the Waters, and he published his first album of lithographs, titled Dans le Rêve, in 1879. Still, Redon remained relatively unknown until the appearance in 1884 of a cult novel by Joris-Karl Huysmans titled, A rebours (Against Nature). The story featured a decadent aristocrat who collected Redon's drawings.
In the 1890s, he began to use pastel and oils, which dominated his works for the rest of his life. In 1899, he exhibited with the Nabis at Durand-Ruel's.
In 1903 he was awarded the Legion of Honor.
His popularity increased when a catalogue of etchings and lithographs was published by André Mellerio in 1913 and that same year, he was given the largest single representation at the New York Armory Show.
In 1923 Mellerio published: Odilon Redon: Peintre Dessinateur et Graveur.
42 Odilon Redon Paintings
Flowers 1909
Oil Painting
$956
$956
SKU: RED-3566
Odilon Redon
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection
Odilon Redon
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection
Flowers in a Turquoise Vase 1910
Oil Painting
$642
$642
SKU: RED-3567
Odilon Redon
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection
Odilon Redon
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection
Vase of Flowers c.1910
Oil Painting
$586
$586
SKU: RED-3568
Odilon Redon
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection
Odilon Redon
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection
The Black Pegasus c.1909/10
Oil Painting
$555
$555
SKU: RED-3569
Odilon Redon
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection
Odilon Redon
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection
Two Young Girls among the Flowers 1912
Oil Painting
$761
$761
SKU: RED-3570
Odilon Redon
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection
Odilon Redon
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection
Vase of Flowers c.1908/10
Oil Painting
$586
$586
SKU: RED-3571
Odilon Redon
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection
Odilon Redon
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection
Flowers c.1905
Oil Painting
$678
$678
SKU: RED-3572
Odilon Redon
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection
Odilon Redon
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection
Flowers in Green Vase with Handles c.1905
Oil Painting
$471
$471
Canvas Print
$50.90
$50.90
SKU: RED-3573
Odilon Redon
Original Size: 28.5 x 22.2 cm
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, USA
Odilon Redon
Original Size: 28.5 x 22.2 cm
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, USA
Vase of Flowers with Branches of a Flowering Apple c.1905/06
Oil Painting
$774
$774
SKU: RED-3574
Odilon Redon
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection
Odilon Redon
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection
Vase of Poppies c.1905/09
Oil Painting
$652
$652
SKU: RED-3575
Odilon Redon
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection
Odilon Redon
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection
Eve 1904
Oil Painting
$604
$604
SKU: RED-3576
Odilon Redon
Original Size: unknown
Musee d'Orsay, Paris, France
Odilon Redon
Original Size: unknown
Musee d'Orsay, Paris, France
Still Life: the Dream c.1904
Oil Painting
$642
$642
SKU: RED-3577
Odilon Redon
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection
Odilon Redon
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection
Predestined Child c.1904/05
Oil Painting
$629
$629
SKU: RED-3578
Odilon Redon
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection
Odilon Redon
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection
Panel with Flowers c.1902
Oil Painting
$731
$731
SKU: RED-3579
Odilon Redon
Original Size: unknown
Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enchede, Netherlands
Odilon Redon
Original Size: unknown
Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enchede, Netherlands
Flowers c.1903
Oil Painting
$692
$692
SKU: RED-3580
Odilon Redon
Original Size: unknown
Kunstmuseum, St. Gallen, Switzerland
Odilon Redon
Original Size: unknown
Kunstmuseum, St. Gallen, Switzerland
Flowers in a Brown Vase c.1903/05
Oil Painting
$586
$586
SKU: RED-3581
Odilon Redon
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection
Odilon Redon
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection
Bouquet of Wild Flowers c.1900
Oil Painting
$555
$555
SKU: RED-3582
Odilon Redon
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection
Odilon Redon
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection
Bouquet of Flowers c.1900
Oil Painting
$536
$536
SKU: RED-3583
Odilon Redon
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection
Odilon Redon
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection
Bouquet of Flowers in a Blue Vase n.d.
Oil Painting
$563
$563
SKU: RED-3584
Odilon Redon
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection
Odilon Redon
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection
Bouquet of Flowers in a Vase n.d.
Oil Painting
$604
$604
SKU: RED-3585
Odilon Redon
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection
Odilon Redon
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection
Bouquet of Flowers in a White Vase n.d.
Oil Painting
$555
$555
SKU: RED-3586
Odilon Redon
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection
Odilon Redon
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection
Flowers in a Pot on a Red Background n.d.
Oil Painting
$436
$436
SKU: RED-3587
Odilon Redon
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection
Odilon Redon
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection
Mystery n.d.
Oil Painting
$586
$586
SKU: RED-3588
Odilon Redon
Original Size: unknown
Phillips Collection, Washington, USA
Odilon Redon
Original Size: unknown
Phillips Collection, Washington, USA
Poet's Dream n.d.
Oil Painting
$555
$555
SKU: RED-3589
Odilon Redon
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection
Odilon Redon
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection