Bertrand-Jean Redon
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Bertrand-Jean Redon 🇫🇷

Odilon Redon (Known as "Odilon Redon")
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Born Apr 20, 1840 🇫🇷 Bordeaux, France
Passed Away Jul 06, 1916 Paris, France
Lifespan 76 years old
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"My drawings inspire, and are not to be defined; they place us, as does music, in the ambiguous realm of the undetermined."

Archival Overview

French Symbolist painter and printmaker whose visionary charcoals ('Noirs') and radiant late pastels ('The Cyclops', 'Ophelia') unlocked the surreal landscape of the subconscious.

Biographical Record

Odilon Redon (1840–1916 CE) spent the first half of his career working exclusively in monochrome charcoal and lithography, creating uncanny visions like The Eye Like a Strange Balloon Mounts Toward Infinity.

Around 1900, he experienced a dazzling transformation, exploding into luminous pastels and oils of floating heads, butterflies, and mythological figures, celebrated by the Surrealists as a spiritual father.

Key Life Milestones

1882

The Eye Like a Strange Balloon

Published his famous lithograph dedicated to Edgar Allan Poe, depicting a giant eyeball rising as a hot air balloon carrying a skull.

1914

The Cyclops (Le Cyclope)

Painted the gentle one-eyed giant gazing down affectionately at sleeping Galatea from behind a vibrant mountain meadow.

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Final Resting Place

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Cemetery of Bièvres
Bièvres, France
GPS: 48.7556, 2.2153
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