Odilon Redon
1840 (Bordeaux) / 1916 (Paris)
"How many times, oh very sincere testimony, have I taken the charcoal of a hand browned by the earth that in gardening I had just touched! To leave the city, to go to the fields, to approach a village in its rustic tranquility, it is always that I felt the tremors of a small heartbeat that made me serious, and that, suddenly gathered in a return on myself, I stammered, distracted, that the truth of the life was to live there - can be. [...] In addition to the dispositions received under the influence of the world and the place that surround him, the artist also yields, to a certain extent, to the demanding powers of the material that he employs: pencil, charcoal, pastel, oily paste, print black, marble, bronze, earth or wood, all these products are agents that accompany him, collaborate with him, and also say something in the fiction that he is going to provide. Matter reveals secrets, it has its genius; it is for it that the oracle will speak."
conference of Odilon Redon, art absolutely n°14, autumn 2005
"How many times, oh very sincere testimony, have I taken the charcoal of a hand browned by the earth that in gardening I had just touched! To leave the city, to go to the fields, to approach a village in its rustic tranquility, it is always that I felt the tremors of a small heartbeat that made me serious, and that, suddenly gathered in a return on myself, I stammered, distracted, that the truth of the life was to live there - can be. [...] In addition to the dispositions received under the influence of the world and the place that surround him, the artist also yields, to a certain extent, to the demanding powers of the material that he employs: pencil, charcoal, pastel, oily paste, print black, marble, bronze, earth or wood, all these products are agents that accompany him, collaborate with him, and also say something in the fiction that he is going to provide. Matter reveals secrets, it has its genius; it is for it that the oracle will speak."
conference of Odilon Redon, art absolutely n°14, autumn 2005
Artist's articles
Artist's exhibitions
LES ARPENTEURS DE RÊVES, dessins du musée d’Orsay
02/07/2022 - 01/11/2022
(Quimper) Musée des Beaux-Arts de Quimper
02/07/2022 - 01/11/2022
(Quimper) Musée des Beaux-Arts de Quimper
LES ARPENTEURS DE RÊVES, dessins du musée d’Orsay
02/07/2022 - 01/11/2022
(Évian-les-Bains) Palais Lumière d’Évian
02/07/2022 - 01/11/2022
(Évian-les-Bains) Palais Lumière d’Évian
Baudelaire, la modernité mélancolique
03/11/2021 - 13/02/2022
(Paris) Bibliothèque nationale de France, site François-Mitterrand
03/11/2021 - 13/02/2022
(Paris) Bibliothèque nationale de France, site François-Mitterrand
La nature silencieuse. Paysages d'Odilon Redon
09/12/2016 - 26/03/2017
(Bordeaux) Galerie des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux
09/12/2016 - 26/03/2017
(Bordeaux) Galerie des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux
Fantastique ! L’estampe visionnaire de Goya à Redon
30/06/2016 - 26/09/2016
(Bordeaux) Galerie des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux
30/06/2016 - 26/09/2016
(Bordeaux) Galerie des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux
L’estampe visionnaire, de Goya à Redon
01/10/2015 - 17/01/2016
(Paris) Petit Palais
01/10/2015 - 17/01/2016
(Paris) Petit Palais
Villa Flora, les temps enchantés
10/09/2015 - 07/02/2016
(Paris) Musée Marmottan-Monet
10/09/2015 - 07/02/2016
(Paris) Musée Marmottan-Monet
Les Archives du rêve – Dessins du musée d’Orsay. Carte blanche à Werner Spies
26/03/2014 - 30/06/2014
(Paris) Musée de l'Orangerie
26/03/2014 - 30/06/2014
(Paris) Musée de l'Orangerie
Odilon Redon, Prince du rêve, 1840-1916
07/07/2011 - 16/10/2011
(Montpellier) Musée Fabre de Montpellier
07/07/2011 - 16/10/2011
(Montpellier) Musée Fabre de Montpellier
Collection Planque, l’exemple de Cézanne
11/06/2011 - 02/10/2011
(Aix-en-Provence) Musée Granet
11/06/2011 - 02/10/2011
(Aix-en-Provence) Musée Granet
Odilon Redon - Prince du Rêve - 1840-1916
23/03/2011 - 20/06/2011
(Paris) Grand Palais
23/03/2011 - 20/06/2011
(Paris) Grand Palais
De Delacroix à Marquet - Les dessins de la collection Olivier Senn
12/03/2011 - 22/05/2011
(Le Havre) MuMa - Musée d’art moderne André Malraux
12/03/2011 - 22/05/2011
(Le Havre) MuMa - Musée d’art moderne André Malraux
De la nature symbolique aux jardins virtuels
07/12/2010 - 27/02/2011
(Saint-Germain-en-Laye) Musée Maurice Denis
07/12/2010 - 27/02/2011
(Saint-Germain-en-Laye) Musée Maurice Denis