
Odilon Redon Painting Reproductions Gallery 1 of 2
1840-1916French 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.
30 Paintings of Odilon Redon
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Private Collection
Flowers in a Turquoise Vase
$397
Private Collection
The Black Pegasus
$343
Private Collection
Two Young Girls among the Flowers
$470
Carnegie Museum of Art Pittsburgh USA
Flowers in Green Vase with Handles
$292
Private Collection
Vase of Flowers with Branches of a Flowering Apple
$478
Private Collection
Still Life: the Dream
$397
Private Collection
Predestined Child
$389
Rijksmuseum Twenthe Enchede Netherlands
Panel with Flowers
$452
Private Collection
Flowers in a Brown Vase
$363
Private Collection
Bouquet of Wild Flowers
$343
Private Collection
Bouquet of Flowers
$332
Private Collection
Bouquet of Flowers in a Blue Vase
$349
Private Collection
Bouquet of Flowers in a Vase
$374
Private Collection
Bouquet of Flowers in a White Vase
$343
Private Collection
Flowers in a Pot on a Red Background
$269
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