If On a Close Dark Night a Good Christian, Out of Charity, Behind Some Old Ruin, Buries Your Arched Body, plate 4 of 9
Odilon Redon
1890
Medium
Photogravure made from an original drawing, in black on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
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.)
Classification
photogravure
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
79805
About the Artist
Odilon Redon · 1840–1916
Odilon Redon (1840-1916) was a French Symbolist painter, printmaker, and pastellist whose visionary art bridged the 19th-century Symbolist movement and 20th-century Surrealism. Born Bertrand Redon in Bordeaux on April 20, 1840, he earned the nickname "Odilon" from his mother Odile. His father, who made his fortune in the Louisiana slave trade, conceived Odilon in New Orleans before the family retu...