Primitive Man
1872
Medium
Various charcoals, with touches of black chalk, stumping, wiping and erasing, heightened with touches of white and ocher gouache, on cream wove paper altered to a pale, golden tone
Dimensions
39.3 × 33.8 cm (15 1/2 × 13 5/16 in.)
Classification
charcoal
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
90808
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...