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Vision by Odilon Redon — VisualArtsDB

Vision

Vision

1895–1897

Medium: Black pastel, with charcoal and black chalk, stumping, scraping and erasing, on ivory wove paper with blue fibers (discolored to cream)
Dimensions: 52.6 × 37.7 cm (20 3/4 × 14 7/8 in.)
Genre: charcoal
Museum: Art Institute of Chicago

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erasingdrawings (visual works)black chalkchalkprints and drawingpastels (crayons)papercrayonsstumpingdrawing techniquespaper (fiber product)wove paperscrapingcharcoal

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Is There Not an Invisible World, from The Juror

Is There Not an Invisible World, from The Juror

Odilon Redon, 1887

Pandora

Pandora

Odilon Redon, 1909

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

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

Here is the Good Goddess, the Idaean Mother of the Mountains, plate 15 of 24

Here is the Good Goddess, the Idaean Mother of the Mountains, plate 15 of 24

Odilon Redon, 1896

On the Dish, plate ten from In Dreams

On the Dish, plate ten from In Dreams

Odilon Redon, 1879

Frontispiece/Title Plate for the Tentation de St. Antoine

Frontispiece/Title Plate for the Tentation de St. Antoine

Odilon Redon, 1896

Et que des yeux sans tete flottaient comme des mollusques, plate XIII of Tentation de St. Antoine

Et que des yeux sans tete flottaient comme des mollusques, plate XIII of Tentation de St. Antoine

Odilon Redon, 1896

In the Shadow Are People, Weeping and Praying, Surrounded by Others Who Are Exhorting Them, plate 6 of 24

In the Shadow Are People, Weeping and Praying, Surrounded by Others Who Are Exhorting Them, plate 6 of 24

Odilon Redon, 1896

Death: "My irony surpasses all others!", plate 3 of 6

Death: "My irony surpasses all others!", plate 3 of 6

Odilon Redon, 1889

And I Saw in the Right Hand of Him that Sat on the Throne a Book Written Within and On the Backside, Sealed With Seven Seals, plate 2 of 12

And I Saw in the Right Hand of Him that Sat on the Throne a Book Written Within and On the Backside, Sealed With Seven Seals, plate 2 of 12

Odilon Redon, 1899

On the Dish, plate ten from In Dreams

On the Dish, plate ten from In Dreams

Odilon Redon, 1879

The Shulamite

The Shulamite

Odilon Redon, 1897