Artworks · Odilon Redon

Les Yeux clos

1890 · oil paint

Image: 29.5 × 23 cm (11 5/8 × 9 1/16 in.); Sheet: 33.4 × 25.9 cm (13 3/16 × 10 1/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Pious Women

1890 · Black chalk and black pastel with black and brown charcoal, stumping and erasing, on ivory wove paper (discolored to cream)

52.7 × 37.4 cm (20 3/4 × 14 3/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Sketch of Trees

1890 · Charcoal and black chalk with black pastel, stumping, scraping and erasing, and traces of brown charcoal(?), on ivory wove paper, discolored to cream

31.8 × 21.5 cm (12 9/16 × 8 1/2 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Glory and Praise to You, Satan, in the Heights of Heaven, Where You Reigned, and in the Depths of Hell, Where, Vanquished, You Dream in Silence!, plate 8 of 9

1890 · Photogravure made from an original drawing, in black on ivory wove paper

Plate: 21 × 21.1 cm (8 5/16 × 8 5/16 in.); Sheet: 44.7 × 31.4 cm (17 5/8 × 12 3/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Ceaselessly by my side the demon stirs, plate 7 from Charles Baudelaire's Flowers of Evil

1890 · Photogravure made from an original drawing (Evely process), in black on ivory wove paper

Plate: 25.6 × 20.7 cm (10 1/8 × 8 3/16 in.); Sheet: 44.7 × 31.5 cm (17 5/8 × 12 7/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

On the Backdrop of Our Nights God with His Knowing Finger Traces a Multiform Implacable Nightmare, plate 6 of 9

1890 · Photogravure made from an original drawing, in black on ivory wove paper

Plate: 24.1 × 21.4 cm (9 1/2 × 8 7/16 in.); Sheet: 43.9 × 31.2 cm (17 5/16 × 12 5/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Tailpiece, plate 9 of 9

1890 · Photogravure made from an original drawing, in black on ivory wove paper

Plate: 21.1 × 14.7 cm (8 5/16 × 5 13/16 in.); Sheet: 44.7 × 31.6 cm (17 5/8 × 12 1/2 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

If On a Close Dark Night a Good Christian, Out of Charity, Behind Some Old Ruin, Buries Your Arched Body, plate 4 of 9

1890 · Photogravure made from an original drawing, in black on ivory wove paper

Plate: 26.6 × 21 cm (10 1/2 × 8 5/16 in.); Sheet: 44.5 × 31.2 cm (17 9/16 × 12 5/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Pleasure, Elastic Phantom!, plate 5 of 9

1890 · Photogravure made from original drawing, in black on ivory wove paper

Plate: 21.9 × 15.3 cm (8 5/8 × 6 1/16 in.); Sheet, approx: 44 × 31.5 cm (17 3/8 × 12 7/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

I Adore You as I Adore the Vault of the Night Sky, O Vessel of Sadness, O Tall Silent Woman, plate 2 of 9

1890 · Photogravure made from an original drawing, in black on ivory wove paper

Plate: 28 × 20.9 cm (11 1/16 × 8 1/4 in.); Sheet: 45.1 × 31.4 cm (17 13/16 × 12 3/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Sometimes One Finds an Old Reminiscing Flask, Whence Issues in Full Life a Returning Soul, plate 3 of 9

1890 · Photogravure made from an original drawing, in black on ivory wove paper

Plate: 27.8 × 19.8 cm (11 × 7 13/16 in.); Sheet: 44.8 × 31.2 cm (17 11/16 × 12 5/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Cover/Frontispiece for Les Fleurs du Mal, plate 1 of 9

1890 · Bi-fold portfolio cover printed in black by photogravure from an original drawing, on blue-gray wove paper

Image, back cover: 4.4 × 4 cm (1 3/4 × 1 5/8 in.); Plate, front cover: 25.6 × 16.4 cm (10 1/8 × 6 1/2 in.); Sheet: 46.3 × 32.7 cm (18 1/4 × 12 7/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Serpent-Halo

1890 · Lithograph in black on ivory China paper laid down on ivory wove paper

Image/chine: 30.2 × 22.2 cm (11 15/16 × 8 3/4 in.); Sheet: 54.2 × 40.2 cm (21 3/8 × 15 7/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Serpent Halo

1890 · Transfer lithograph on mounted ivory China paper

30.4 × 22.7 cm (12 × 8 15/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Frontispiece for Les Flambeaux noirs by Emile Verhaeren

1890 · Lithograph in black on ivory China paper laid down on white wove paper

Image/chine: 17.4 × 12 cm (6 7/8 × 4 3/4 in.); Sheet: 36 × 27.4 cm (14 3/16 × 10 13/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

I Adore You as I Adore the Vault of the Night Sky, O Vessel of Sadness, O Tall Silent Woman (Je t'adore à l'égal de la voûte nocturne. O vase de tristesse, o grande taciturne) from The Flowers of Evil (Les Fleurs du mal)

1890 · One from a portfolio of nine photogravures (including cover)

plate: 10 7/8 × 8 3/16" (27.7 × 20.8 cm); sheet: 12 11/16 × 9 13/16" (32.2 × 25 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Ceaselessly by My Side the Demon Stirs (Sans cesse à mes côtés s'agite le démon) from The Flowers of Evil (Les Fleurs du mal)

1890 · One from a portfolio of nine photogravures (including cover)

plate: 10 1/16 × 8 1/8" (25.5 × 20.7 cm); sheet: 12 11/16 × 9 7/8" (32.2 × 25.1 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Tailpiece from The Flowers of Evil (Les Fleurs du mal)

1890 · One from a portfolio of nine photogravures (including cover)

plate: 8 1/4 × 5 13/16" (21 × 14.7 cm); sheet: 12 11/16 × 10" (32.2 × 25.4 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Pleasure, Elastic Phantom! (Volupté, fantôme élastique!) from The Flowers of Evil (Les Fleurs du mal)

1890 · One from a portfolio of nine photogravures (including cover)

plate: 8 11/16 × 6" (22 × 15.2 cm); sheet: 12 11/16 × 9 13/16" (32.2 × 25 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

If on a Close Dark Night a Good Christian, Out of Charity, behind Some Old Ruin, Buries Your Arched Body (Si par une nuit lourde et sombre, un bon chrétien, par charité, derrière quelque vieux décombre, enterre votre corps voûté) from The Flowers of Evil (Les Fleurs du mal)

1890 · One from a portfolio of nine photogravures (including cover)

plate: 10 1/2 × 8 5/16" (26.6 × 21.1 cm); sheet: 12 11/16 × 9 15/16" (32.2 × 25.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Glory and Praise to You, Satan, in the Heights of Heaven, Where You Reigned, and in the Depths of Hell, Where, Vanquished, You Dream in Silence! (Gloire et louange à toi, Satan, dans les hauteurs du ciel où tu régnas, et dans les profondeurs de l'enfer, où vaincu, tu rêves en silence!) from The Flowers of Evil (Les Fleurs du mal)

1890 · One from a portfolio of nine photogravures (including cover)

plate: 8 3/16 × 8 1/4" (20.8 × 21 cm); sheet: 12 3/4 × 9 13/16" (32.4 × 25 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Cover/Frontispiece from The Flowers of Evil (Les Fleurs du mal)

1890 · One from a portfolio of nine photogravures (including cover)

plate: 10 × 6 1/2" (25.4 × 16.5 cm); sheet: 12 11/16 × 9 7/8" (32.2 × 25.1 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Sometimes One Finds an Old Reminiscing Flask, Whence Issues in Full Life a Returning Soul (Parfois on trouve un vieux flacon qui se souvient, d'où jaillit toute vive une âme qui revient) from The Flowers of Evil (Les Fleurs du mal)

1890 · One from a portfolio of nine photogravures (including cover)

plate: 10 11/16 × 7 13/16" (27.2 × 19.8 cm); sheet: 12 11/16 × 9 7/8" (32.2 × 25.1 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

On the Backdrop of Our Nights God with His Knowing Finger Traces a Multiform Implacable Nightmare (Sur le fond de nos nuits Dieu de son doigt savant dessine un cauchemar multiforme et sans trêve) from The Flowers of Evil (Les Fleurs du mal)

1890 · One from a portfolio of nine photogravures (including cover)

plate: 9 7/16 × 8 3/8" (24 × 21.2 cm); sheet: 12 11/16 × 9 13/16" (32.2 × 25 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Closed Eyes (Yeux clos)

1890 · Lithograph with chine appliqué

composition: 12 5/16 x 9 9/16" (31.2 x 24.3 cm); sheet: 14 15/16 x 11 1/4" (38 x 28.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Serpent-Halo (Serpent-Auréole)

1890 · Lithograph with chine appliqué

composition: 11 15/16 x 8 7/8" (30.4 x 22.6 cm); sheet: 20 x 14 5/16" (50.8 x 36.3 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Germination

1890 · Pastel, chalk, and pencil on colored paper

20 1/2 x 14 7/8" (52.1 x 37.8 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Portrait of a Youth from Left

1890 · Pastel with colored chalk on colored paper

23 1/2 x 18 1/2" (59.7 x 47 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

The Closed Eyes

1890 · Conté crayon and lithographic tusche on transfer paper

14 x 10 1/8" (35.6 x 26.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

The Giant

1890 · Oil on prepared paper

25 1/2 x 20 1/4" (64.8 x 51.4 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

The Black Torches (Les Flambeaux noirs)

1890 · Illustrated book with one lithograph with chine appliqué

composition: 6 7/8 × 4 3/4" (17.4 × 12.1 cm); page: 10 7/8 × 7 3/4" (27.7 × 19.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Bouquet in a Chinese Vase

1890 · Oil on canvas

25 1/2 x 19 5/8 in. (64.8 x 49.8 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Le Sphynx...mon regard que rien ne peut devier, demeure tendu a travers les choses sur un horizon inaccessible. La Chimere: Moi,Je suis legere et joyeuse (The Sphinx: "My gaze, which nothing can deflect, passes through the things and remains fixed on an inaccessible horizon." The Chimera: "I am weightless and joyful")

1889 · lithograph

National Gallery of Art

Les Sciapodes: La tete le plus bas possible, c'est le secret du bonheur! (The Skiapods: "The head as low as possible, that is the secret of happiness!")

1889 · lithograph

National Gallery of Art

Une longue chrysalide couleur de sang (A longchrysalis, the color of blood)

1889 · lithograph

National Gallery of Art

La Mort: Mon ironie depasse toutes les autres! (Death: My iron surpasses all others!)

1889 · lithograph

National Gallery of Art

Saint-Antoine: Il doit y avoir quelque part des figures primordiales dont les corps ne sont que les images (Saint Anthony: "Somewhere there must be primordial shapes whose bodiesare only images")

1889 · lithograph

National Gallery of Art

Saint-Antoine...A travers ses longs cheveux qui lui couvraient la figure, j'ai cru reconnaitre Ammonaria (Saint Anthony: "Beneathe her long hair , which covered her face, I thought I recognized Ammonaria)

1889 · lithograph

National Gallery of Art

Frontispiece

1889 · lithograph

National Gallery of Art

Frontispiece to A Gustave Flaubert (To Gustave Flaubert)

1889 · Lithograph in black on cream China paper laid down on ivory wove paper

Image/chine: 27.9 × 20.4 cm (11 × 8 1/16 in.); Sheet: 45.1 × 34.7 cm (17 13/16 × 13 11/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Captive Pegasus

1889 · Transfer lithograph on mounted ivory China paper

Image: 33.9 × 29.6 cm (13 3/8 × 11 11/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Frontispiece to A Gustave Flaubert (To Gustave Flaubert)

1889 · Lithograph in black on ivory China paper laid down on ivory wove paper

Image/chine: 27.9 × 20.5 cm (11 × 8 1/8 in.); Sheet: 44.5 × 31.6 cm (17 9/16 × 12 1/2 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Frontispiece to A Gustave Flaubert (To Gustave Flaubert)

1889 · Lithograph in black on ivory China paper laid down on ivory wove paper

Image/chine: 27.7 × 20.4 cm (10 15/16 × 8 1/16 in.); Sheet: 44.1 × 31.4 cm (17 3/8 × 12 3/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Frontispiece for Les Chimères by Jules Destrée

1889 · Lithograph in black on ivory China paper laid down on ivory wove paper

Image/chine: 13.9 × 9.6 cm (5 1/2 × 3 13/16 in.); Sheet: 26.3 × 21.2 cm (10 3/8 × 8 3/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Frontispiece for Iwan Gilkin's Damnation de l'artiste

1889 · Lithograph in black on pinkish-cream China paper laid down on white wove paper

Image/chine: 19 × 12.4 cm (7 1/2 × 4 15/16 in.); Sheet: 30 × 22 cm (11 13/16 × 8 11/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Frontispiece for El Moghreb al Aksa by Edmond Picard

1889 · Lithograph in black on ivory China paper laid down on ivory wove paper

Image/chine: 24.4 × 18.6 cm (9 5/8 × 7 3/8 in.); Sheet: 42.3 × 31.4 cm (16 11/16 × 12 3/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Captive Pegasus

1889 · Lithograph in black on cream China paper laid down on cream wove paper

Image/chine: 34 × 29.7 cm (13 7/16 × 11 3/4 in.); Sheet: 60.2 × 43.8 cm (23 3/4 × 17 1/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Frontispiece for Iwan Gilkin's Damnation de l'artiste

1889 · Lithograph in black on ivory wove paper

Image: 19 × 12.4 cm (7 1/2 × 4 15/16 in.); Sheet: 30.2 × 22.2 cm (11 15/16 × 8 3/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago