Arï

Odilon Redon

1898

A lithograph portrait in which Odilon Redon quietly renders a boy’s head, using soft, smoky tones to suggest mood more than an exact likeness.

You first notice the darker, fully modelled face emerging from a veil of cross‑hatched, smudged marks beside a faint profile study, the figure floating in a broad, luminous emptiness punctuated by the small dated inscription.

Created in Redon’s mature Symbolist period, this print demonstrates how he pushed lithography toward psychological atmosphere and poetic suggestion, helping open modern art’s interest in mood and subjective portraiture.

Palette

Art Terms

Lithography Portrait Print Symbolism Monochrome Figurative

Exhibitions

Odilon Redon: Drawings and Lithographs

1952

The Prints of Odilon Redon

1986

Toulouse-Lautrec, Redon

1931

Memorial Exhibition: The Collection of the Late Lillie P. Bliss

1931