Room 182

Odilon Redon

1840–1916, France (Bordeaux, Paris), Symbolism

For decades Redon drew only in black: charcoal and lithographs peopled with floating eyes, sphinxes, angels and shadows – images from dreams and books. Around 1900 he suddenly turned to colour and painted glowing flowers, butterflies and mythical figures in pastel and oil. The Surrealists saw him as a forerunner.

All works

• Pandora
• Saint Sebastian
• Large Vase with Flowers
• Flowers in a Vase
• Breton Village
• Evocation of Roussel
• Village by the Sea in Brittany
• Two Figures in a Landscape
• Five Butterflies
• Young Man
• Wildflowers
• Saint George and the Dragon
• Léon Fayet (?)
• The Devil
• The Queen of Sheba
• The Shadow
• Apollonius
• Saint Anthony and Two Temptresses
• The Book of Light
• Pansies
• Tree
• The Ford
• And he had in his right hand seven stars; and out of his mouth went a sharp two-edged sword
• Day
• Light
• Profile of a Woman
• And the Angel Took the Censer
• And Beyond, the Star Idol, the Apotheosis
• The Reader
• Parsifal
• Fear
• The Buddha
• Profile of Light
• The Sphinx and the Chimera
• Closed Eyes
• Béatrice