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This painting displays a man standing upright, with his back against a tree. His hands are behind his back, and his face is turned to the right. He has pale skin, and his face is a mix of pale pink and light blue. He has short, reddish-brown hair, and he is nude except for a thin light blue cloth around his hips. He is pierced in several placed by thin arrows. The tree behind him is light gray, dotted with small, sparse red leaves. The ground below him is filled with colorful patterns, including green, red, orange, and blue tones against dark reddish-brown. There is a large patch of white on the left side. Behind the tree, the light blue sky is covered in thin, light gray clouds.
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 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