The Sphinx: "...my gaze that nothing can deflect, passing through objects, remains fixed on an inaccessible horizon." The Chimera: "As for me, I am light and joyful," plate 5 from To Gustave Flaubert
Odilon Redon
1889
Medium
Lithograph in black on ivory China paper laid down on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Image/chine: 28.2 × 20.2 cm (11 1/8 × 8 in.); Sheet: 44.2 × 30.9 cm (17 7/16 × 12 3/16 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
79478
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...