This collection features 30 paintings from Odilon Redon, a French symbolist painter, printmaker, draughtsman and pastellist.
During the 1890s Redon began working in pastel and oils. Today he is perhaps best known today for the “dreamlike” paintings created in the first decade of the 20th century. His works were heavily inspired by Japanese art, took inspiration from nature, and the outcome flirted with abstraction. His work is considered a precursor to both Dadaism and Surrealism.
In 1899, Baron Robert de Domecy commissioned the artist to create 17 decorative panels for the dining room of the Château de Domecy-sur-le-Vault near Sermizelles in Burgundy. Redon’s compositions for the Château in 1900–1901 were his most radical compositions to that point and mark the transition from ornamental to abstract painting. Domecy also commissioned portraits of his wife and their daughter, two of which are in the collections of the Musée d’Orsay and the Getty Museum in California.
In 1903 Redon was awarded the Legion of Honor. Ten years later, in 1913, he was given the largest single representation at the groundbreaking U.S. International Exhibition of Modern Art (aka Armory Show), in New York City, Chicago and Boston.
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