Oannes: "I, the first consciousness in Chaos, rose from the abyss to harden matter, to determine forms," plate 14 from The Temptation of Saint Anthony (3rd series)
Odilon Redon
1896
Medium
Lithograph in black on ivory China paper laid down on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Image, overlaps chine: 27.8 × 21.7 cm (11 × 8 9/16 in.); Sheet: 45.1 × 36 cm (17 13/16 × 14 3/16 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
106640
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...