Word: odilon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Other standouts: a competently sumptuous Nude at the Mirror, by Georges Capon; Edouard Goerg's fuzzy, dreamy Midnight Bouquet, reminiscent of the 19th-Century Romanticist Odilon Redon; and Astarté, by André Marchand. Marchand, in his 30s, is considered one of the "younger" painters. His picture of green flesh, black water and blue sand was startling in a show full of surprises. The most surprising thing about it was that he had painted the sky blue...
...Impressionists thought his work was queer. Up to the time of his death (1916) he sold his pictures (if at all) for as little as $15 apiece. Today he is a collectors' favorite, regarded by critics as one of the greatest painters of modern France. His name: Odilon Redon...
...Odilon Redon just missed being born in the U.S. Son of a New Orleans Creole mother and a French father who went to America to make his fortune during the Napoleonic wars, Redon was born in 1840 just after his parents landed in Bordeaux. A sickly child in a fairly well-to-do family, he was allowed to dawdle unsuccessfully at his early school studies, got his real education from an eccentric botanist who whetted his appetite for writers like Flaubert, Baudelaire, Poe. In Paris he took up architecture, then sculpture, failed at both. A moody young...