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{{Short description|French painter (1840–1916)}}
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{{Infobox artist
| name          = Odilon Redon
| image         = Odilon Redon vers 1880.jpg
| image_size    = 220px
| caption       = Photograph, around 1880
| birth_name    = Bertrand Redon
| birth_date    = {{birth date|1840|4|20|df=y}}
| birth_place   = [[Bordeaux]], France
| death_date    = {{death date and age|1916|7|6|1840|4|20|df=y}}
| death_place   = Paris, France
| known_for     = Painting, [[printmaking]], drawing
| training      = Atelier of [[Jean-Léon Gérôme]]
| movement      = [[Post-Impressionism]], [[Symbolism (arts)|Symbolism]]
| spouse        = Camille Falte
| children      = 1
| notable_works =
| patrons       =
| awards        = 
}}
'''Odilon Redon''' (born '''Bertrand Redon'''; {{IPA|fr|ɔdilɔ̃ ʁədɔ̃|lang}}; 20 April 1840{{spaced ndash}}6 July 1916) was a French [[Symbolist painting|Symbolist]] draftsman, printmaker, and painter.

Early in his career, both before and after fighting in the [[Franco-Prussian War]], Redon worked almost exclusively in [[Charcoal (art)|charcoal]] and [[lithography]], works known as his ''noirs''. He gained recognition after his drawings were mentioned in the 1884 novel ''[[À rebours]]'' (''Against Nature'') by [[Joris-Karl Huysmans]]. During the 1890s, Redon began working in [[pastel]] and [[Oil painting|oil]], which quickly became his favorite medium, abandoning his previous style of ''noirs'' completely after 1900. He developed a keen interest in [[Hinduism|Hindu]] and [[Buddhism|Buddhist]] religion and culture, which increasingly showed in his work.

Redon is perhaps best known today for the dreamlike paintings created in the first decade of the 20th century, which were inspired by [[Japanese art]] and leaned toward [[Abstract art|abstraction]]. His work is considered a precursor to [[Surrealism]].

==Early life==
Odilon Redon was born, on 20 April 1840,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/odilon-redon-2243|title=Odilon Redon 1840–1916|website=Tate}}</ref> in [[Bordeaux]], [[Aquitaine]], to a prosperous family. Redon's father made his fortune in the [[History of slavery in Louisiana|slave trade in Louisiana]] in the 1830s.<ref name="Pfohl 2016">{{cite web |last1=Pfohl |first1=Katie |title=Odilon Redon: How Louisiana ancestry influenced his Symbolist art |url=https://noma.org/odilon-redon-edgar-poe-louisiana/ |website=New Orleans Museum of Art |access-date=5 April 2020 |date=28 October 2016}}</ref> Redon was conceived in [[New Orleans]] and the couple made the transatlantic journey back to France while his mother Marie Guérin, a [[Creole peoples#Louisiana|French Creole]] woman, was pregnant with his brother Gaston.<ref name="Pfohl 2016" /> The young Bertrand Redon acquired the nickname "Odilon" from his mother's first name, Odile.<ref name="Ministère de la culture">{{cite web | title=Base Léonore | website=Ministère de la culture | url=http://www2.culture.gouv.fr/LH/LH187/PG/FRDAFAN83_OL2282058V008.htm | language=fr | access-date=8 February 2023}}</ref><ref name="artstory">{{cite web |last1=Seiferle |first1=Rebecca |title=Odilon Redon's Life and Legacy |url=https://www.theartstory.org/artist-redon-odilon-life-and-legacy.htm |publisher=The Art Story Contributors |access-date=23 August 2018}}</ref> Redon started drawing as a child; at the age of ten, he was awarded a drawing prize at school. He began the formal study of drawing at fifteen but, at his father's insistence, he changed to architecture. Failure to pass the entrance exams at Paris' [[École des Beaux-Arts]] ended any plans for a career as an architect, although he briefly studied painting there under [[Jean-Léon Gérôme]] in 1864. (His younger brother [[Gaston Redon]] would become a noted architect.)

Back in his native Bordeaux, he took up sculpting, and [[Rodolphe Bresdin]] instructed him in [[etching]] and [[lithography]]. His artistic career was interrupted in 1870 when he was drafted<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/gallery/redon/about/childhood.html|title=The Fitzwilliam Museum – Home {{!}} Online Resources {{!}} Online Exhibitions {{!}} Redon {{!}} About Odilon Redon {{!}} Childhood and Early Career|date=5 November 2009|website=www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk|language=en|access-date=7 February 2017}}</ref> to serve in the army in the [[Franco-Prussian War]] until its end in 1871.<ref name="Sharyk 2022">{{cite journal | last=Sharyk | first=Hailee | title=Chapter 10 – Odilon Redon | website=Library Publishing for Open Textbooks | date=1 January 2022 | url=https://openeducationalberta.ca/19thcenturyart/chapter/chapter-10-odilon-redon/#_ftn4 | access-date=8 February 2023}}</ref>

==Career==
[[File:Odilon Redon.jpg|thumb|upright|left|''Self-Portrait'', 1880, [[Musée d'Orsay]]]]
At the end of the war, Redon moved to Paris and resumed working almost exclusively in charcoal and lithography. He called his visionary works, conceived in shades of black, his ''noirs''. It was not until 1878 that his work gained any recognition with ''Guardian Spirit of the Waters''; 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 ''[[À rebours]]'' (''Against Nature'').<ref name="Kunst, Künstler, Ausstellungen, Kunstgeschichte e-Kunstmagazin 2014">{{cite web | title=Odilon Redon: Schwarze Phantasien zu Farbe und Mystik | website=Kunst, Künstler, Ausstellungen, Kunstgeschichte | date=8 February 2014 | url=https://artinwords.de/odilon-redon/ | language=de | access-date=8 February 2023}}</ref><ref name="Redon 2018">{{cite web | last=Redon | first=Odilon | title=Des Esseintes, Frontispiece for A Rebours by J.K. Huysmans | website=The Art Institute of Chicago | date=21 January 2018 | url=https://www.artic.edu/artworks/79435/des-esseintes-frontispiece-for-a-rebours-by-j-k-huysmans | access-date=8 February 2023}}</ref> The story featured a decadent aristocrat who collected Redon's drawings.<ref name="Huysmans Capsius 2012 p. ">{{cite book | last1=Huysmans | first1=Joris-Karl | last2=Capsius | first2=M. | title=Gegen den Strich | publication-place=Altenmünster | date=2012 | isbn=978-3-8496-1684-7 | oclc=863958649 | language=de | page=}}</ref>

In 1886, Redon exhibited his work with the [[Impressionism|Impressionists]] in their last exhibition.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Odilon Redon (The J. Paul Getty Museum Collection) |url=https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/person/103M1J |access-date=8 February 2023 |website=The J. Paul Getty Museum Collection |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Samu |first=Margaret |date=October 2004 |title=Impressionism: Art and Modernity |url=https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/imml/hd_imml.htm |access-date=8 February 2023 |website=www.metmuseum.org}}</ref> The same year, he also began participating in the exhibitions of [[Les XX]] in Brussels.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Anonymous |date=31 October 2018 |title=Melancholy |url=https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1927.299 |access-date=8 February 2023 |website=Cleveland Museum of Art |language=en}}</ref>

In the 1890s, Redon worked in pastel and oil; he did not make ''noirs'' after 1900. In 1899, he exhibited with the [[Les Nabis|Nabis]] at [[Durand-Ruel]]'s.<ref name="Catplus.de 2015">{{cite web | title=Odilon Redon – Tiermalerei – Tiere in der Kunst | website=Catplus.de | date=6 November 2015 | url=https://www.catplus.de/tiermalerei/odilon-redon/ | language=de | access-date=8 February 2023}}</ref><ref name="Christie's 2022">{{cite web | title=ODILON REDON (1840–1916) | website=Christie's | date=19 November 2022 | url=https://www.christies.com/lot/lot-6397316?ldp_breadcrumb=back&intObjectID=6397316&from=salessummary&lid=1 | access-date=8 February 2023}}</ref>

Redon had a keen interest in [[Hinduism|Hindu]] and [[Buddhism|Buddhist]] religion and culture. The figure of the [[Buddha]] increasingly showed in his work. Influences of [[Japonisme]] blended into his art, such as the painting ''The Death of the Buddha'' around 1899, ''The Buddha'' in 1906, ''Jacob and the Angel'' in 1905, and ''Vase with Japanese Warrior'' in 1905, among others.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/drawings-watercolors/odilon-redon-vase-au-guerrier-japonais-5289376-details.aspx |title=Odilon Redon (1840–1916) &#124; Vase au guerrier japonais &#124; IMPRESSIONIST & MODERN ART Auction &#124; 20th Century, Drawings & Watercolors &#124; Christie's |publisher=Christies.com |date=2 February 2010 |access-date=9 March 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://pressimages.fondationbeyeler.ch/aktuelle-ausstellungen/odilon-redon |title=Odilon Redon &#124; Press Images – Fondation Beyeler |publisher=Pressimages.fondationbeyeler.ch |access-date=9 March 2015}}</ref>

[[File:Odilon redon, figure dalla decorazione della sala da parnzo del castello di domecy, 1901, 09.JPG|thumb|upright|''Trees on a yellow Background'', one of the panels painted in 1901 for the dining room of the [[Château de Domecy-sur-le-Vault]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/collections/index-of-works/notice.html?nnumid=025623 |title=Musée d'Orsay: non_traduit |publisher=Musee-orsay.fr |date=14 October 1987 |access-date=9 March 2015}}</ref>]]
Baron Robert de Domecy (1867–1946) commissioned Redon in 1899 to create 17 decorative panels for the dining room of the [[Château de Domecy-sur-le-Vault]] near [[Sermizelles]] in [[Burgundy]]. Redon had created large decorative works for private residences in the past, but his compositions for the château de Domecy in 1900–1901 were his most radical compositions to that point and mark the transition from ornamental to abstract painting. The landscape details do not show a specific place or space. Only details of trees, twigs with leaves, and budding flowers in an endless horizon can be seen. The colors used are mostly yellow, grey, brown and light blue. The influence of the Japanese painting style found on folding screens, ''[[byōbu]]'', is discernible in his choice of colors and the rectangular proportions of most of the up to 2.5 metres high panels. Fifteen of them are located today in the [[Musée d'Orsay]], acquired in 1988.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/collections/index-of-works/notice.html |title=Musee d'Orsay : Homepage |publisher=Musee-orsay.fr |access-date=9 March 2015 |archive-date=9 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210509223814/https://musee-orsay.fr/en/collections/index-of-works/notice.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Domecy also commissioned Redon to paint portraits of his wife and their daughter Jeanne, two of which are in the collections of the Musée d'Orsay and the [[Getty Museum]] in California.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/collections/works-in-focus/painting/commentaire_id/baronne-robert-de-domecy-8842.html?tx_commentaire_pi1pidLi=509&tx_commentaire_pi1from=841&cHash=abd6d391a6|title=Musée d'Orsay: Odilon Redon Baroness Robert de Domecy|date=4 February 2009|access-date=10 October 2014|archive-date=4 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304083346/http://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/collections/works-in-focus/painting/commentaire_id/baronne-robert-de-domecy-8842.html?tx_commentaire_pi1pidLi=509&tx_commentaire_pi1from=841&cHash=abd6d391a6|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/artObjectDetails?artobj=257416 |title=Baronne de Domecy (Getty Museum) |publisher=Getty.edu |access-date=9 March 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141016184507/http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/artObjectDetails?artobj=257416 |archive-date=16 October 2014 }}</ref> Most of the paintings remained in the Domecy family collection until the 1960s.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/lot.pdf.N08633.html/f/46/N08633-46.pdf |title=Sotheby's Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale |publisher=Sothebys.com |access-date=9 March 2015}}</ref>

[[File:La Nuit (The Night) - 1910-1911 - Odilon Redon.jpg|thumb|400px|left|''The Night'', c. 1910–1911, part of a series of decorative panels by Odilon Redon commissioned by Gustave Fayet and located in the [[Fontfroide Abbey]] library<ref>Geipel, Gary (25 January 2013). [https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887324624404578257774171765906  "A Late Blooming"]. The Wall Street Journal</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.patrimoine-environnement.fr/labbaye-de-fontfroide-accueille-une-exposition-du-peintre-odilon-redon/|title=L’abbaye de Fontfroide accueille une exposition du peintre Odilon Redon – Fédération Patrimoine-Environnement}}</ref>]]
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==Personal life==
At the age of 40, Redon married Camille Falte, a young Creole from Île Bourbon. They had a son, Arï Redon (30 April 1889 – 13 May 1972 in Paris). A visual artist himself and subject of his father's portraiture as a child, Arï's partner was Suzanne Redon.<ref name="Musée dOrsay 2023">{{cite web | title=Portrait d'Arï Redon au col marin – Odilon Redon | website=Musée d'Orsay | date=9 January 2023 | url=https://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/artworks/portrait-dari-redon-au-col-marin-7956 | access-date=8 February 2023}}</ref>

Redon died on 6 July 1916 in Paris.<ref name="Die Kathedrale (M+)">{{cite web | title=Die Pinakotheken | website=Die Kathedrale (M+) | url=https://www.pinakothek.de/kunst/odilon-redon/die-kathedrale | language=de | access-date=8 February 2023}}</ref>

==Reception and interpretations of his work==
[[File:Odilon Redon 006.jpg|thumb|''Butterflies'', around 1910 ([[Museum of Modern Art]])]]
During his early years as an artist, Redon's works were described as "a synthesis of nightmares and dreams", as they contained dark, fantastical figures from the artist's own imagination.<ref>Redon, Odilon, and Raphaël Bouvier (2014). ''Odilon Redon''. p. 2.</ref> His work represents an exploration of his internal feelings and psyche. Redon  wanted to place "the logic of the visible at the service of the invisible".<ref>Redon, Odilon (1988). ''Odilon Redon: the Woodner Collection''. Washington, D.C.: Phillips Collection. unpaginated. {{OCLC|20763694}}.</ref> A telling source of Redon's inspiration and the forces behind his works can be found in his journal ''A Soi-même'' (''To Myself''). Of his process he wrote:<ref name="Redon 1989 p. ">{{cite book | last=Redon | first=Odilon | title=A soi-même journal, 1867–1915 : notes sur la vie, l'art et les artistes | publisher=J. Corti |url=https://archive.org/details/soimmejourna00redouoft/page/12/mode/2up | publication-place=Paris | date=1989 | isbn=2-7143-0357-9 | oclc=496052158 | language=fr | page=}}</ref>

{{blockquote|I have often, as an exercise and as a sustenance, painted before an object down to the smallest accidents of its visual appearance; but the day left me sad and with an unsatiated thirst. The next day I let the other source run, that of imagination, through the recollection of the forms and I was then reassured and appeased.|source=}}

Redon's drawings are characterized as mysterious and evocative by [[Joris-Karl Huysmans]] in the following passage from the novel ''[[À rebours]]'' (1884):

{{blockquote|Those were the pictures bearing the signature: Odilon Redon. They held, between their gold-edged frames of unpolished pearwood, undreamed-of images: a Merovingian-type head, resting upon a cup; a bearded man, reminiscent both of a Buddhist priest and a public orator, touching an enormous cannon-ball with his finger; a spider with a human face lodged in the centre of its body. Then there were charcoal sketches which delved even deeper into the terrors of fever-ridden dreams. Here, on an enormous die, a melancholy eyelid winked; over there stretched dry and arid landscapes, calcinated plains, heaving and quaking ground, where volcanos erupted into rebellious clouds, under foul and murky skies; sometimes the subjects seemed to have been taken from the nightmarish dreams of science, and hark back to prehistoric times; monstrous flora bloomed on the rocks; everywhere, in among the erratic blocks and glacial mud, were figures whose simian appearance—heavy jawbone, protruding brows, receding forehead, and flattened skull top—recalled the ancestral head, the head of the first Quaternary Period, the head of man when he was still fructivorous and without speech, the contemporary of the mammoth, of the rhinoceros with septate nostrils, and of the giant bear. These drawings defied classification; unheeding, for the most part, of the limitations of painting, they ushered in a very special type of the fantastic, one born of sickness and delirium.<ref name="Huysmans">{{cite book |author=Joris-Karl Huysmans |author-link=Joris-Karl Huysmans |translator=Margaret Mauldon |title=[[À rebours|Against Nature]] |year=1998 |publisher=Oxford University Press |pages=[https://archive.org/details/againstnature00huys/page/52 52–53] |isbn=0-14-044086-0 }}</ref>}}

The art historian [[Michael Francis Gibson|Michael Gibson]] says that Redon began to want his works, even the ones darker in colour and subject matter, to portray "the triumph of light over darkness."<ref>Gibson, Michael, and Odilon Redon (2011). ''Odilon Redon, 1840–1916: The Prince of Dreams''. Los Angeles, Calif: Taschen America. p. 97. {{ISBN|978-3-8365-3003-3}}.</ref>

Redon described his work as ambiguous and undefinable:

{{blockquote|My drawings ''inspire'', and are not to be defined. They place us, as does music, in the ambiguous realm of the undetermined.<ref name="Goldwater">{{cite book | title = Artists on Art | first1 = Robert | last1 = Goldwater | first2 = Marco |last2 = Treves | publisher = Pantheon | year = 1945 | isbn = 0-394-70900-4}}</ref>}}

== Legacy ==
[[File:1914 Odilon Redon Pandora anagoria.JPG|thumb|''[[Pandora]]'', 1914]]
In 1903, Redon was awarded the [[Legion of Honour]].<ref>Redon and Werner (1969), p. ix.</ref> His popularity increased when a catalogue of etchings and lithographs was published by [[André Mellerio]] in 1913; that same year, he was given the largest single representation at the groundbreaking US [[International Exhibition of Modern Art]] (aka [[Armory Show]]), in New York City, Chicago and Boston.<ref name="Scott 2021">{{cite web | last=Scott | first=Chadd | title=Strange—And Wonderful—Odilon Redon At Cleveland Museum Of Art | website=Forbes | date=20 October 2021 | url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/chaddscott/2021/10/20/strange-and-wonderful-odilon-redon-at-cleveland-museum-of-art/ | access-date=8 February 2023}}</ref>

His choice of color and subject matter in the second part of his career led to Redon being considered a precursor to [[Dadaism]] and [[Surrealism]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Hopkins|first=David|url=https://archive.org/details/dadasurrealismve0000hopk|url-access=registration|title=Dada and Surrealism: A Very Short Introduction|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2004|isbn=978-0-19-157769-7|location=Oxford and New York|pages=[https://archive.org/details/dadasurrealismve0000hopk/page/n97 78]|language=en}}</ref><ref name="Encyclopedia Britannica 1999">{{cite web | title=Odilon Redon - French painter | website=Encyclopedia Britannica | date=27 May 1999 | url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Odilon-Redon | access-date=16 December 2022}}</ref> According to Surrealist [[André Masson]], Redon's use of bright colors in his flower pastels, as well as his choice of depicting uncommon or imaginary species renders his works "released from stylized naturalism", thus demonstrating the "endless possibilities of lyrical chromatics".<ref>{{Cite book|last=Hauptman|first=Jodi|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BOYHQAXdgIIC&q=odilon+redon+surrealism&pg=PA52|title=Beyond the Visible: The Art of Odilon Redon|publisher=The Museum of Modern Art|year=2005|isbn=978-0-87070-601-1|location=New York|pages=43|language=en}}</ref>

In 1923, Mellerio published ''Odilon Redon: Peintre Dessinateur et Graveur''.<ref name="Internet Archive 2022">{{cite web | title=Odilon Redon, peintre, dessinateur et graveur : Mellerio, André, b. 1862 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive | website=Internet Archive | date=14 January 2022 | url=https://archive.org/details/odilonredonpeint00melluoft | access-date=8 February 2023}}</ref> An archive of Mellerio's papers is held by the [[Ryerson & Burnham]] Libraries at the [[Art Institute of Chicago]].<ref name="Mellerio 2018">{{cite web | last=Mellerio | first=André |title=André Mellerio Papers | website=The Art Institute of Chicago | date=21 January 2018 | url=https://www.artic.edu/artworks/262291/andre-mellerio-papers | access-date=8 February 2023}}</ref>

Redon was the inspiration for [[Guy Maddin]]'s 1995 short film ''[[Odilon Redon, or The Eye Like a Strange Balloon Mounts Toward Infinity]]''.<ref>William Beard, ''Into the Past: The Cinema of Guy Maddin''. [[University of Toronto Press]], 2010. {{ISBN|978-1-4426-1066-8}}. pp. 363–365.</ref>

=== Modern exhibitions ===
In 2005, the [[Museum of Modern Art]] launched an exhibition entitled "Beyond The Visible", a comprehensive overview of Redon's work showcasing more than 100 paintings, drawings, prints and books from The [[Ian Woodner|Ian Woodner Family Collection]]. The exhibition ran from 30 October 2005 to 23 January 2006.<ref>{{cite journal | title=Dark Dreamer | author= Danielle O'Steen | publisher=ART + AUCTION  | date= November 2005 | url=http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/1458/dark-dreamer/ | access-date=20 May 2008 }}</ref>

In 2007, the [[Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt]] presented the exhibition "As in a Dream" with a survey of Redon's work with more than 200 drawings, lithographs, pastels, and paintings.<ref name="Schirn 2007">{{cite web | title=Odilon Redon | website=[[Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt]] | date=27 January 2007 | url=https://www.schirn.de/en/exhibitions/2007/odilon_redon/ | access-date=16 December 2022}}</ref>

The [[Grand Palais]] in Paris, France featured a vast exhibition of Redon's art from March to June 2011 <ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.grandpalais.fr/en/event/odilon-redon|title=Odilon Redon|website=www.grandpalais.fr|language=en|access-date=13 December 2018}}{{Dead link|date=July 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

The [[Fondation Beyeler]] in Basel, Switzerland showed a retrospective from February to May 2014.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.fondationbeyeler.ch/en/exhibitions/odilon-redon/introduction |title=Introduction &#124; Fondation Beyeler |publisher=Fondationbeyeler.ch |access-date=9 March 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141105014505/https://www.fondationbeyeler.ch/en/exhibitions/odilon-redon/introduction |archive-date=5 November 2014 }}</ref>

The [[Kröller-Müller Museum]] in [[Otterlo]], The Netherlands, had an exhibition with an emphasis on the role that literature and music played in Redon's life and work, under the title ''La littérature et la musique''. The exhibition ran from 2 June to 9 September 2018.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://krollermuller.nl/odilon-redon |title=Odilon Redon: La littérature et la musique; |access-date=10 August 2018 }}</ref>

==Gallery==
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File:Redon spirit-waters.jpg|''Guardian Spirit of the Waters'', 1878 ([[Art Institute of Chicago]])
<!--File:Odilon Redon - Caliban - Google Art Project.jpg|''Caliban'', 1881 ([[Musée d'Orsay]])-->
File:Redon - L'oeil, comme un ballon bizarre, se dirige vers l'infini, 0217275.jpg|''The Eye Like a Weird Balloon, Goes to Infinity'', 1882 ([[Los Angeles County Museum of Art]])
<!--File:Redon cactus-man.jpg|''Cactus Man'', {{Circa|1882}} ([[Ian Woodner Family Collection]])-->
<!--File:16 sep 13 redon morgat.jpg|''The Port of Morgat'', 1882 ([[Dallas Museum of Art]])-->
<!--File:Redon - Madame Redon brodant, RF 40490, recto.jpg|''Madame Redon Embroidering'', 1880  (Musée d'Orsay)-->
<!--File:Redon.yeux-clos.jpg|''Closed Eyes'', 1890 (portrait of his wife Camille Falte) (Musée d'Orsay)-->
<!--File:Redon.golden-cell.jpg|''The Golden Cell'', 1892 ([[British Museum]])-->
File:Odilon Redon - Sita.jpg|''[[Sita]]'', c. 1893, pastel (Art Institute of Chicago)
<!--File:Odilon Redon - 'Lady of the Flowers', oil on canvas, c. 1890-95.JPG|''Lady of the Flowers'', {{Circa|1890}}–1895 ([[Honolulu Museum of Art]])-->
<!--File:Redon - La Visitation, RF 35757, recto.jpg|''The Visitation'', c. 1895, (Musée d'Orsay)-->
<!--File:Redon barque mystique.jpg|''The Mystical Boat'', c. 1890-1900-->
File:La Mort de Bouddha (The Death of Buddha), c. 1899, Odilon Redon.jpg|''[[The Buddha#Last days and parinirvana|The Death of Buddha]]'', c. 1899 (private collection)
<!--File:Odilon Redon - Baroness Robert de Domecy - Google Art Project.jpg|''[[Baroness]] Robert de Domecy'', 1900 (Musée d'Orsay)-->
<!--File:Madame Arthur Fontaine (Marie Escudier, born 1865) MET ep60.54.R.jpg|Madame Arthur Fontaine (Marie Escudier, born 1865), 1901 ([[Metropolitan Museum of Art]])-->
<!--File:Odilon Redon Les Anemones MIA 20163358.jpg|''Still Life with Anemones'', {{Circa|1900}}–1910 ([[Minneapolis Institute of Art]])-->
<!--File:Odilon Redon, Maurice Denis, 1903, NGA 45844.jpg|alt=Portrait of the artist Maurice Denis created as a lithograph by Odilon Redon, from the collection of the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC.|''Maurice Denis'', 1903 (National Gallery of Art, Rosenwald Collection)-->
<!--File:Redon - Portrait de Mademoiselle Jeanne Chaîne, 1903.jpg|''Portrait of Jeanne Chaîne'', 1903 (Kunstmuseum Basel)-->
File:Odilon Redon Le Christ du silence Petit Palais 29122017.jpg|''The [[Jesus|Christ]] of Silence'', Petit Palais
File:Odilon Redon - Flower Clouds - Google Art Project.jpg|''Flower Clouds'', 1903 (Art Institute of Chicago)
File:Redon.ophelia.jpg|''[[Ophelia]]'', 1900–1905 (Dian Woodner Collection)
File:The Buddha.png|The Buddha, 1904 (Van Gogh Museum)
File:Reflection, 1900-1905.jpg|''Reflection'', 1900–1905 (private collection)
File:Redon.bouddha.jpg|''The Buddha'', c. 1904-1907 (Musée d'Orsay)
<!--File:16 sep 13 redon.jpg|''Initiation to Study: Two Young Ladies'', {{Circa|1905}} (Dallas Museum of Art)-->
File:WLA moma Odilon Redon Apparition.jpg|''Apparition'', 1905 (Museum of Modern Art)
<!--File:Redon, Odilon, Apparition, 1905-10.jpg|''Apparition'', 1905–1910 (Princeton University Art Museum)-->
File:OdilonRedon-The Chariot of Apollo.png|The Chariot of Apollo, 1909 ([[Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux]])
File:Odilon Redon 005.jpg|''Flowers'', 1909
File:Redon - CHRIST EN CROIX, RF 1984 53.jpg|''Christ on the [[Crucifixion of Jesus|Cross]]'', 1910
<!--File:Saint Sebastian by Odilon Redon.JPG|''Saint Sebastian'', 1910–1912, ([[National Gallery of Art]])-->
<!--File:Odilon Redon 003.jpg|''Portrait of Violette Heymann'', 1910 ([[Cleveland Museum of Art]])-->
File:Redon - Underwater Vision c. 1910.jpg|''Underwater Vision'', c. 1910 (Museum of Modern Art)
<!--File:Redon.coquille.jpg|''Coquille'', 1912 (Musée d'Orsay)-->
<!--File:1914 Odilon Redon Pandora anagoria.JPG|''Pandora'', {{Circa|1914}} (Metropolitan Museum of Art)-->
File:Odilon Redon - The Cyclops, c. 1914.jpg|''[[The Cyclops (Redon)|The Cyclops]]'', 1914 ([[Kröller-Müller Museum]])
File:Bemberg Fondation Toulouse - L'enlèvement de Ganymède - Odilon Redon 41x32.5 Inv.2148.jpg|''The Abduction of [[Ganymede (mythology)|Ganymede]]'' ([[Bemberg Foundation]])
File:Evocation Odilon Redon.jpeg|''Evocation'', undated (private collection)
<!--File:Odilon Redon - Boat in the moonlight.jpg|''Boat in the Moonlight''-->
File:Saint Sebastian by Odilon Redon.JPG|''Saint Sebastian'', 1910-1912
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==References==
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==Bibliography==
* Russell T. Clement, ''Four French Symbolists: A Sourcebook on Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, Gustave Moreau, Odilon Redon, and Maurice Denis,'' Greenwood Press, 1996, {{ISBN|0-313-29752-5}} & {{ISBN|978-0-313-29752-6}}
*Jodi Hauptman and Marina Van Zuylen, ''Beyond the Visible: The Art of Odilon Redon,'' 2005, {{ISBN|0-87070-702-7}} & {{ISBN|978-0-87070-702-5}}
*Andre Mellerio, ''Odilon Redon,'' 1968, ASIN B0007DNIKO
*Odilon Redon and Alfred Werner, ''The Graphic Works of Odilon Redon'', Dover, 1969, {{ISBN|0-486-21996-8}}
*Odilon Redon and Alfred Werner, ''The Graphic Works of Odilon Redon'', (Dover Pictorial Archive), 2005, {{ISBN|0-486-44659-X}} & {{ISBN|978-0-486-44659-2}}
*Margret Stuffmann, ''Odilon Redon: As in a Dream,'' 2007, {{ISBN|3-7757-1894-X}} & {{ISBN|978-3-7757-1894-3}}

==External links==
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* {{Internet Archive author |sname=Odilon Redon}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20140106021333/http://odilonredon.net/ odilonredon.net] – Online biography and pictures of Odilon Redon
* [http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/redon_odilon.html Artcyclopedia] – Links to Redon's works
* [http://www.the-athenaeum.org/art/by_artist.php?id=328 The Athenaeum] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140221205449/http://www.the-athenaeum.org/art/by_artist.php?id=328 |date=21 February 2014 }} – Extensive list and images of Redon's works
* [http://www.museumsyndicate.com/artist.php?artist=152 Museum Syndicate] – Odilon Redon Gallery at Museum Syndicate
* [http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/redon/ Web Museum] – Biography and images of Redon's works
* {{MoMA artist|4840}}
* [http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/2005/redon/ MoMA Exhibition] – "Beyond the Visible – The Art of Odilon Redon" – MoMA exhibition (October 2005 – January 2006)
* [https://www.kunstmuseum.nl/en/collection/search/?origin=gm&search=Odilon%20Redon Kunstmuseum Den Haag] – Site with 322 prints by Odilon Redon
* [http://odilon.chez.com/odilon/odilonvo.html odilon.chez.com] – Timeline of Redon's life
* [https://www.thegreatcat.org/the-cat-in-art-and-photos-2/cats-in-19th-century-art/odilon-redon-1840-1916-french/ Redon's Cats]
* Exhibition catalogue, ''[http://www.jillnewhouse.com/catalogues/odilon-redon Odilon Redon: Vision and Sight]'', Jill Newhouse Gallery, 4 - 26 May 2023

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