The Man Was Alone in a Night Landscape (L'Homme fut solitaire dans un paysage de nuit)
Odilon Redon
French, 1840–1916
1886
A lithograph with chine appliqué by Odilon Redon that presents a solitary, hooded figure beside a luminous tree, aiming to evoke an uncanny, dreamlike interior world.
Dense, velvety blacks scored with delicate white scratches make a tall, shrouded form seem to emerge from night beside a ghostly, textured tree, producing a quiet, unsettling hush.
Working within Symbolism, Redon used tonal print techniques to make psychological atmosphere visible, steering art toward inward, poetic visions that anticipated later modernist and Surrealist interests.
Medium
Lithograph with chine appliqué
Dimensions
composition: 11 1/2 x 8 5/8" (29.2 x 21.9 cm); sheet: 15 7/8 x 12 3/8" (40.3 x 31.4 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
Accession
540.1940
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