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...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...
...West of it volleyed and thundered in and around both World's Fairs, Chicago's Art Institute last week rummaged around and quietly put on nine first-rate shows of its own. The best show: 46 of its 329 lithographs by the late great French Artist Odilon Redon. The Art Institute's collection of Redon prints, purchased from the artist's widow when Redon prices were low, is the world's best: it includes all of the first impressions...
Long considered an isolated figure in art, an independent who withdrew from the life and thought of his time to paint creepy, imaginary worlds, Odilon Redon (1840-1916) is often classed by critics with the 19th-Century romantics; surrealists claim him as a pre-surrealist. In his melancholy youth Redon had tried architecture, sculpture, studying the old masters, imitating the Barbizon landscapists, copying the romantics. As far as he was concerned, nothing seemed to click. Then, one day, in 1875, he found that charcoal was his meat. From charcoal drawings he went on to lithography. It had taken...
...skylit garret on MacDougal Street, wearing leather sandals and paint-splattered slacks, she welcomed more interviewers from the press than she had ever seen in her life, testified to her work at the Art Students' League, told her love for chile concarne and the late French painter Odilon Redon, and recalled that when she sold her first two pictures two years ago through Director Alfred H. Barr Jr., of the Museum of Modern Art, she didn't have a nickel for the subway ride up town...