Odilon Redon

French, 1840 - 1916

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French painter (1840–1916)

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Les Artistes du livre: Pierre Bonnard

Pierre Bonnard, Odilon Redon, Claude Roger-Marx · 1931 · unbound volume with 1 lithographic frontispiece by Bonnard; 1 lithographic portrait of Bonnard by Odilon Redon; 23 lithographic illustrations in an uncut section of text; and 14 photomechanical reproductions ·  Accession ID  2008.139.2

A balding man with peach-colored skin and a drooping white mustache is surrounded by flowers floating in a blue sky with apricot-colored clouds in this vertical painting. He is shown from the waist up facing us at the bottom center. He seems to wear a midnight blue tunic over a white shirt, but his clothing is loosely painted. He looks down to our right, and his head is surrounded by an area of brownish gold to create a halo-like effect. Upon closer inspection, the peach clouds turn out to be areas of bare canvas. A sunflower, orange flowers, and a cluster of white and red flowers float in the space around the man. Some areas are thinly painted, and strokes are visible throughout.
Odilon Redon, Evocation of Roussel, c. 1912, oil on canvas, Chester Dale Collection, 1963.10.203

Evocation of Roussel

Odilon Redon · c. 1912 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1963.10.203

Odilon Redon, Large Vase with Flowers, c. 1912, oil on canvas, Gift of the Honorable John C. Whitehead, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art, 1990.64.1

Large Vase with Flowers

Odilon Redon · c. 1912 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1990.64.1

Odilon Redon, Five Butterflies, c. 1912, watercolor on wove paper, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 1985.64.113

Five Butterflies

Odilon Redon · c. 1912 · watercolor on wove paper ·  Accession ID  1985.64.113

Odilon Redon, Young Woman in Profile, 1910, pastel and charcoal(?) on green prepared wove paper, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 1995.47.64

Young Woman in Profile

Odilon Redon · 1910 · pastel and charcoal(?) on green prepared wove paper ·  Accession ID  1995.47.64

A pale-skinned young woman with copper-orange hair, wearing a turquoise-blue robe, stands in a pastel-infused landscape in this stylized, vertical painting. The woman fills most of the left half of the composition. She faces our right in profile with her head bowed as she looks down at the silver and brown box she holds in her right hand, closer to us. Her body angles away from us so we see her back. Her hair is held back under a gold-colored headand, and her blue robe falls over a white skirt. Beyond her, rocky mountains in ice blue and pale lilac purple span the horizon, which comes about three-quarters of the way up the painting, beneath a pale, rose-pink sky. An area of mottled parchment-white to our right of the person could be a field. Along the bottom edge of the canvas, rounded and organic shapes in scarlet red, turquoise, lapis blue, golden and lemon yellow, and pumpkin orange could be abstracted earth or flowers at the woman’s feet.
Odilon Redon, Pandora, 1910/1912, oil on canvas, Chester Dale Collection, 1963.10.56

Pandora

Odilon Redon · 1910/1912 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1963.10.56

Odilon Redon, Flowers in a Vase, c. 1910, oil on canvas, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Collection, 1970.17.56

Flowers in a Vase

Odilon Redon · c. 1910 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1970.17.56

Odilon Redon, Saint Sebastian, 1910/1912, oil on canvas, Chester Dale Collection, 1963.10.57

Saint Sebastian

Odilon Redon · 1910/1912 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1963.10.57

A bouquet of coral orange, bright yellow, and periwinkle blue flowers and greenery are arranged in a teal-green vase in this pastel drawn on brown paper. The orange flowers have long, curved petals. The yellow flowers have wide blooms with spiky petals, and the blue blossoms are smaller with wispy petals. The vase has a narrow opening and wide shoulders. The background is mostly the tan of the paper with some light-handed, black shading to the right. The artist signed the drawing in the lower right corner, “Odile Redon.”
Odilon Redon, Wildflowers, c. 1905, pastel on brown wove paper coated with sawdust, Gift of Loula D. Lasker, 1961.12.1

Wildflowers

Odilon Redon · c. 1905 · pastel on brown wove paper coated with sawdust ·  Accession ID  1961.12.1

Odilon Redon, Pansies, c. 1905, pastel on brown paper, Rosenwald Collection, Gift of the Adele R. Levy Fund, Inc., 1961.14.1

Pansies

Odilon Redon · c. 1905 · pastel on brown paper ·  Accession ID  1961.14.1