Redon was, with Gustave Moreau, one of the leading artists of the French Symbolist movement. He was born in Bordeaux and trained for a brief period with Jean-Léon Gérôme. His earlier work consisted chiefly of drawings and prints of imaginary and usually macabre subjects.
After 1880, with the encouragement of Gauguin and the Nabis, he turned to the production of oils and pastels.
Odilon Redon
1840 - 1916
Paintings by Odilon Redon
Ophelia, the doomed heroine in William Shakespeare’s play Hamlet, rests within a luminous space filled with vibrantly-coloured flowers. Unlike her vivid surroundings, her face is drained of colour – we are not sure if she is dead or only sleeping. This association of youthful, but ill-fated, beau...
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