Odilon Redon
Odilon Redon moves between the darkness of charcoal and the luminous color of pastel and oil, and is best known for lithographs that turn dreamlike, often eerie imagery into print. His sheets dwell on floating eyes, armored figures, and hallucinatory landscapes rather than on observed reality. This archive gathers 38 of his works, dominated by lithography but also including oil paintings, etchings, pastels, and a charcoal and conté crayon drawing, with impressions up to 1914.
38 works in the collection · All public domain (CC0)
Study of Man between Trees
1860–80
Fear
1866 · Etching
Cain and Abel
1886 · Etching
Eyes Closed
1890 · Lithograph
Armor
1891 · Charcoal and conté crayon
Day (Le Jour), from the series, Dreams (Songes), plate VI
1891 · Lithograph on chine collé; only state
Perversity
1891 · Etching
Pilgrim from a sublunar world
1891 · Lithograph
Druidesse
1891 · Transfer lithograph
A Veil, a Printed Image
1891 · Lithograph
In the shadow of the wing, the black creature bit
1891 · Lithograph
The Vague Glimmer of a Head Suspended in Space
1891 · Lithograph
And over there, the Astral Idol, the Apotheosis
1891 · Lithograph
Haunting
1893–94 · Lithograph; fifth (final) state
The Charger
1894 · Lithograph
The Celestial Art
1894 · Lithograph
Brunnhilde (The Twilight of the Gods)
1894 · Lithograph
The Old Knight
1896 · Lithograph on chine collé
I saw a flash of light, large and pale
1896 · Lithograph
Below, I saw the vaporous contours of a human form
1896 · Lithograph
He fixed his eyes on me with an expression that was so strange
1896 · Lithograph
The breadth and flatness of the frontal bone
1896 · Lithograph
To all appearances, it was a hand of flesh and blood just like my own
1896 · Lithograph
Hideous Larvae
1896 · Lithograph
The Haunted House (La Maison Hantée)
1896 · Lithograph on china paper
Brown Paper Cover (wrapper) for the series, The Haunted House (La Maison Hantée)
1896
A Trial Plate for Mallarmé's "Un coup de dés" (A Throw of the Dice)
1897–1898 · Lithograph
Sleep
1898 · Lithograph on Imperial Japan paper
Etruscan Vase with Flowers
1900–1910 · Tempera on canvas
Madame Arthur Fontaine (Marie Escudier, 1865–1946)
1901 · Pastel on paper
The Chariot of Apollo
1905–16 · Oil on canvas
Pegasus and Bellerophon
ca. 1888 · Charcoal, charcoal with water wash, white chalk, conté crayon, and highlighting by erasure on buff papier bleuté, darkened.
Bouquet of Flowers
ca. 1900–1905 · Pastel on paper
Vase of Flowers (Pink Background)
ca. 1906 · Oil on canvas
Bouquet in a Chinese Vase
ca. 1912–14 · Oil on canvas
Pandora
ca. 1914 · Oil on canvas
Hallucinations
n.d. · Charcoal on tan paper
Songes
n.d. · Lithograph