Artworks · Odilon Redon

La sirene sortit des flots vetue de dards (The Siren clothed in barbs, emerged from the waves

1883 · lithograph

image: 30.1 x 23.5 cm (11 7/8 x 9 1/4 in.) sheet: 55 x 35.8 cm (21 5/8 x 14 1/8 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Le Satyre au cynique sourire (The Satyr with the cynical smile)

1883 · lithograph

National Gallery of Art

Quand s'eveillait la Vie au Fon de la matiere obscure (When life was awakening in the depths of obscure matter)

1883 · lithograph

National Gallery of Art

Il y eut peut-etre une vision premiere essayee dans la fleur (There was perhaps a first vision attempted in the flower)

1883 · lithograph

National Gallery of Art

Le Polype difforme flottait sur les rivages, sorte de cyclope souriant et hideux (The deformed polyp floated on the shores, a sort of smiling and hideous Cyclops)

1883 · lithograph on chine appliqué on wove paper

image (chine appliqué): 21.4 × 20 cm (8 7/16 × 7 7/8 in.) sheet: 54.7 × 36 cm (21 9/16 × 14 3/16 in.)

National Gallery of Art

The Sphinx

1883 · Various charcoals, with touches of black chalk, stumping, wiping, and erasing, on pale-pink wove paper with red and blue fibers altered to a golden tone

52.6 × 37.7 cm (20 3/4 × 14 7/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Beacon

1883 · Pastel, with various charcoals and touches of black chalk, stumping and erasing, on pale-pink wove paper with red fibers altered to a golden tone, laid down on cardboard

51.5 × 37.2 cm (20 5/16 × 14 11/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Satyr with the Cynical Smile, plate 5 of 8 from "Les Origines"

1883 · Lithograph in black on light gray China paper, laid down on white wove paper

Image/chine: 24.2 × 20.7 cm (9 9/16 × 8 3/16 in.); Sheet: 30.9 × 24.9 cm (12 3/16 × 9 13/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Centaur Aiming at the Clouds

1883 · Lithograph in black on light gray China paper laid down on ivory wove paper

Chine: 31.5 × 25.7 cm (12 7/16 × 10 1/8 in.); Sheet: 44.7 × 34.6 cm (17 5/8 × 13 5/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Little Abbot Reading the Ramayana

1883 · Charcoal with black chalk, stumping, scraping and erasing, on dark cream wove paper, discolored to tan. Ruled in pale red-orange pastel. Offset impression of Tadpole, verso.

50.5 × 37.2 cm (19 15/16 × 14 11/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

And Man Appeared; Questioning the Earth From Which He Emerged and Which Attracted Him, He Made His Way Toward Somber Brightness, plate 8 of 8 from "Les Origines"

1883 · Lithograph in black on light gray China paper, laid down on white wove paper

Image/chine: 28 × 21 cm (11 1/16 × 8 5/16 in.); Sheet: 47.2 × 34.5 cm (18 5/8 × 13 5/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Impotent Wing Did Not Lift the Animal Into That Black Space, plate 7 of 8 from "Les Origines"

1883 · Lithograph in black on light gray China paper, laid down on white wove paper

Image/chine: 29.5 × 22.2 cm (11 5/8 × 8 3/4 in.); Sheet: 52.2 × 34.5 cm (20 9/16 × 13 5/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

There Were Struggles and Vain Victories, plate 6 of 8 from "Les Origines"

1883 · Lithograph in black on light gray China paper, laid down on white wove paper

Image/chine: 29.1 × 22.3 cm (11 1/2 × 8 13/16 in.); Sheet: 53.3 × 34.4 cm (21 × 13 9/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

There Was Perhaps a First Vision Attempted in the Flower, plate 2 of 8 from "Les Origines"

1883 · Lithograph in black on light gray chine laid down on white wove paper

Image/chine: 22.5 × 17.7 cm (8 7/8 × 7 in.); Sheet: 51.1 × 35.6 cm (20 1/8 × 14 1/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Misshapen Polyp Floated on the Shores, a Sort of Smiling and Hideous Cyclops, plate 3 of 8 from "Les Origines"

1883 · Lithograph in black on light gray China paper, laid down on white wove paper

Image: 21.3 × 20 cm (8 7/16 × 7 7/8 in.); Chine: 21.2 × 19.6 cm (8 3/8 × 7 3/4 in.); Sheet: 53 × 34.5 cm (20 7/8 × 13 5/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Siren Coming out of the Waves, Dressed in Flames, plate 4 of 8 from "Les Origines"

1883 · Lithograph in black on light gray China paper collé, laid down on white wove paper

Image/chine: 30.2 × 23.5 cm (11 15/16 × 9 5/16 in.); Sheet: 49 × 34.5 cm (19 5/16 × 13 5/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

When Life Was Awakening in the Depths of Obscure Matter, plate 1 of 8 from "Les Origines"

1883 · Lithograph in black on ivory China paper, laid down on white wove paper

Image/chine: 27.6 × 20.2 cm (10 7/8 × 8 in.); Sheet: 47.5 × 34.5 cm (18 3/4 × 13 5/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Cover-Frontispiece for Les Origines

1883 · Lithograph in black on dark gray wove paper

Image: 30.7 × 22.5 cm (12 1/8 × 8 7/8 in.); Sheet: 45 × 34.4 cm (17 3/4 × 13 9/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Rocks on the Beach

1883 · Oil on paper mounted on canvas

10 1/4 x 14 1/4" (26 x 36.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Trees in the Blue Sky

1883 · Oil over traces of graphite on light-brown wove paper mounted on board

11 7/8 x 9 1/2" (30.2 x 24.1 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

And Man Appeared, Questioning the Earth from Which He Came and Which Draws Him Back, as He Cleared a Way Forward to the Murky Light (Et l'homme parut, interrogeant le sol d'où il sort et qui l'attire, il se fraya la voie vers de sombres clartés)

1883 · Lithograph with chine appliqué

composition: 11 x 8 1/4" (27.9 x 20.9 cm); sheet: 20 5/16 x 14 1/8" (51.6 x 35.8 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

The Misshapen Polyp Floated on the Shores, a Sort of Smiling and Hideous Cyclops (Le Polype difforme flottait sur les rivages, sorte de cyclope souriant et hideux)

1883 · Lithograph with chine appliqué

composition: 8 3/8 x 7 13/16" (21.3 x 19.9 cm); sheet: 21 7/16 x 13 13/16" (54.5 x 35.1 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

The Teeth (Les Dents)

1883 · Charcoal and chalk on paper

20 1/8 x 14 1/2" (51.1 x 36.8 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

The Eye, Like a Strange Balloon Moves Towards Infinity, plate one from To Edgar Poe

1882 · Lithograph in black on ivory China paper, laid down on white wove paper

Image/chine: 26.3 × 19.8 cm (10 3/8 × 7 13/16 in.); Sheet: 44.3 × 31.5 cm (17 1/2 × 12 7/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

On the Horizon the Angel of Certitude, and in the Somber Heaven a Questioning Eye, plate four from To Edgar Poe

1882 · Lithograph in black on ivory China paper, laid down on white wove paper

Image: 27 × 20.5 cm (10 11/16 × 8 1/8 in.); Chine: 27.2 × 20.5 cm (10 3/4 × 8 1/8 in.); Sheet: 44 × 30.5 cm (17 3/8 × 12 1/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Madness, plate six from To Edgar Poe

1882 · Lithograph in black on ivory China paper, laid down on white wove paper

Image/chine: 14.5 × 20.1 cm (5 3/4 × 7 15/16 in.); Sheet: 30.6 × 44 cm (12 1/16 × 17 3/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

A Mask Sounds the Funeral Knell, plate three from To Edgar Poe

1882 · Lithograph in black on ivory China paper, laid down on white wove paper

Image/chine: 26 × 19.3 cm (10 1/4 × 7 5/8 in.); Sheet: 44 × 30.5 cm (17 3/8 × 12 1/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Before the Black Sun of Melancholy, Lenore Appears, plate two from To Edgar Poe

1882 · Lithograph in black on ivory China paper, laid down on white wove paper

Image/chine: 16.8 × 12.8 cm (6 5/8 × 5 1/16 in.); Sheet: 41.8 × 30.5 cm (16 1/2 × 12 1/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

In the Spheres (The Breath Which Leads Living Creatures is also in the Spheres), plate five from To Edgar Poe

1882 · Lithograph in black on ivory China paper, laid down on white wove paper

Image: 27.3 × 20.8 cm (10 3/4 × 8 1/4 in.); Chine: 27.2 × 21 cm (10 3/4 × 8 5/16 in.); Sheet: 44.8 × 31.5 cm (17 11/16 × 12 7/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

In the Spheres (The breath which leads living creatures is also in the SPHERES), plate 5 of 6 from To Edgar Poe

1882 · Lithograph in black on ivory China paper laid down on white wove paper

Image/chine: 27.3 × 20.8 cm (10 3/4 × 8 1/4 in.); Sheet: 44.1 × 31.4 cm (17 3/8 × 12 3/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Cover/Frontispiece: verso of the second page, from To Edgar Poe

1882 · Lithograph in brick red on light blue wove paper

16.4 × 11.6 cm (6 1/2 × 4 5/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Portfolio cover, from To Edgar Poe

1882 · Bi-fold portfolio cover with lithographed text and images front and back, printed in brick-red on blue-green wove paper

Image: 16.4 × 11.5 cm (6 1/2 × 4 9/16 in.); Sheet: 46 × 32.8 cm (18 1/8 × 12 15/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Eye like a Strange Balloon Mounts toward Infinity (L'Œil, comme un ballon bizarre se dirige vers l'infini)

1882 · Lithograph on chine appliqué

composition: 10 3/16 x 7 11/16" (25.9 x 19.6 cm); sheet: 17 11/16 x 12 7/16" (45 x 31.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

The Fairy (Profile of Light)

1882 · Charcoal and chalk on paper

14 1/8 x 10 1/4" (35.9 x 26 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Sita

1882 · Pastel, with touches of black Conté crayon, over various charcoals, on cream wove paper altered to a golden tone

53.6 × 37.7 cm (21 1/8 × 14 7/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Head Wearing a Phrygian Cap, on a Salver

1881 · Charcoal with black chalk, stumping, scraping and erasing, on pale pink wove paper with red/pink and blue fibers, discolored to buff

48.4 × 36.3 cm (19 1/16 × 14 5/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Head of a Young Girl (Compiler's Title)

1881 · Etching on white wove paper

Image: 15.8 × 10.7 cm (6 1/4 × 4 1/4 in.); Plate: 18.5 × 12.1 cm (7 5/16 × 4 13/16 in.); Sheet: 28.5 × 22.8 cm (11 1/4 × 9 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Head of Orpheus

1881 · Charcoal on colored paper

17 1/2 x 21 1/8" (44.5 x 53.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

The Convict

1881 · Charcoal on paper

21 × 14 5/8" (53.3 × 37.1 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Imaginary Figure

1881 · Chalk and charcoal on paper

14 x 13" (35.6 x 33 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Village by the Sea in Brittany

1880 · oil on cardboard on hardboard

overall: 25.08 × 32.39 cm (9 7/8 × 12 3/4 in.) framed: 37.15 × 44.45 × 3.81 cm (14 5/8 × 17 1/2 × 1 1/2 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Saint George and the Dragon

1880 · charcoal and pastel on tan wove paper

overall: 53.7 x 37.5 cm (21 1/8 x 14 3/4 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Faust and Mephistopheles

1880 · Various charcoals, with wiping, stumping, erasing, and incising, on cream wove paper altered to a golden tone

40 × 32 cm (15 3/4 × 12 5/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

False Glory

1880 · Various charcoals, with incising, stumping, wiping, erasing, and subtractive brushwork, on pale-pink wove paper altered to a pale, golden tone

49.9 × 33.1 cm (19 11/16 × 13 1/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Suggestion

1880 · Various charcoals and black pastel (a later reworking), with touches of black Conté crayon, incising, stumping, wiping, erasing, and subtractive brushwork, on pale-pink wove paper with red and blue fibers altered to a golden tone

52.4 × 36.8 cm (20 11/16 × 14 1/2 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Well

1880 · Charcoal and chalk on paper

14 x 9 3/8" (35.6 x 23.8 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Strange Flower (Little Sister of the Poor)

1880 · Various charcoals, with touches of black chalk and black Conté crayon, stumping, incising and erasing, on yellowish cream wove paper altered to a golden tone

40.4 × 33.2 cm (15 15/16 × 13 1/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

On the Dish, plate ten from In Dreams

1879 · Lithograph on mounted ivory China paper

24.4 × 16.3 cm (9 5/8 × 6 7/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago