Odilon Redon, (born April 20, 1840, died July 6, 1916) was a French symbolist painter, lithographer, and etcher of poetic sensitivity and imagination. His prints explore haunted, fantastic, often macabre themes and foreshadowed the Surrealist and Dadaist movements. His oils and pastels, mainly still life drawings of flowers, won him the admiration of Henri Matisse and other painters as an important colourist. Redon produced nearly 200 prints beginning in 1879 with the lithographs collectively titled In the Dream. He completed another series (1882) dedicated to Edgar Allan Poe, whose poems had been translated into French. Though there is a relationship between his work and that of the Impressionist painters, he opposed both Impressionism and Realism as wholly perceptual. Here is my own study of his work along with other examples.
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