Self Portrait Musee dOrsay Paris Odilon Redon was

Self Portrait, Musee d'Orsay Paris

Odilon Redon was born in Bordeaux , Aquitaine to a prosperous family The young Bertrand-Jean Redon acquired the nickname "Odilon" from his mother, Odile Redon started drawing as a child, and at the age of ten he was awarded a drawing prize at school Aged fifteen, he began the formal study of drawing, but on the insistence of his father he changed 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 Gérôme Mystery

Roger and Angelica, 1910

Back home in his native Bordeaux he took up sculpture and 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 Beatrice 1885

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 , À rebours (Against Nature) The story featured a decadent aristocrat who collected Redon's drawings Saint John, 1892

In the 1890 s 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 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 An archive of Mellerio's papers is held by the Ryerson & Burnham Libraries at the Art Institute of Chicago 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 Family Collection The exhibition ran from October 30, 2005 to January 23, 2006

Red Boat with Blue Sail, 1906 -7

Les yeux clos (Closed Eyes )1890, Musee d'Orsay, Paris

The Golden Cell 1892 The British Museum

Woman with a Yellow Bodice c. 1899 Museum Kroller-Mueller, Otterlo, The Netherlands

Ophelia c. 1900 -05 The Woodner Collection

Panel, c. 1902 , Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede, The Netherlands

Flowers, c. 1903 Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, Switzerland

The Cyclops c. 1914 Museum Kroller-Mueller, Otterlo, The Netherlands

Flower Clouds, c. 1903 , The Art Institute of Chicago

Portrait of Violette Heymann. 1910 , Cleveland Museum of Art.

Two Young Girls Among Flowers 1908

Le Bouddha (The Buddha) c. 1905 Musee d'Orsay, Paris

Parsifal c. 1912 Musee d'Orsay, Paris

Profile and Flowers 1912 Mc. Nay Art Institute, San Antonio, TX

La coquille (The Seashell) , 1912, Musee d'Orsay, Paris

The Red Sphinx c. 1912

The Crying Spider, 1881 Spirit of the Forest, 1890

Cactus Man , 1881

Lady of the Flowers c. 1890 -95 Honolulu Academy of Arts

Chariot of Apollo

Aged Angel

Alsace Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Switzerland

Anemones

Apollo's Chariot circa 1904 -1910

Le Silence (vers 1895 -1900), Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lille

Primitive Man (Seated in Shadow), 1872 The Art Institute of Chicago

Sita c. 1893 The Art Institute of Chicago

The Turkish vase c. 1911 Sammlung Prof. Dr. Hans R. Hahnloser , Bern

Muse on Pegasus c. 1900

Jeanne Chaire Mus. de Basiléia

Moça Inst. de Arte - Chicago

"Tystnad" 1911. Museum of Modern Art , New York.

La Barque Mystique, 1890 -1895

The Druidess , 1893

Mystical Knight (Oedipus and the Sphinx ), 1894

Pegasus, 1900 Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Washington, D. C.

Photograph of Guardian Spirit of the Waters , 1878

The Raven 1882 National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

The Winged Man (The Fallen Angel) before 1880 Musee des Beaux-Arts. Bordeaux

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