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Odilon Redon Most Popular Paintings

The 25 artworks by Odilon Redon our visitors ask for most, ranked by popularity and presented one by one, with the specification and the price of each hand-painted reproduction.

Edition 2026 · 25 artworks Each artwork painted to order
Linen canvas · Certificate of authenticity · Delivered worldwide Odilon Redon · 1840 – 1916

The Death of Ophelia

1905

Experience the dreamlike Symbolism of Odilon Redon's 1905 masterpiece, The Death of Ophelia, capturing tragic beauty; discover this evocative artwork today.

Technique: Hand-painted oil on linen canvas
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Popularity: No. 1 of 793 artworks by Odilon Redon
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Beatrice

1905 · Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich · original 5 x 48 cm

Odilon Redon's 'Beatrice' (1905) is a haunting pastel masterpiece depicting a distorted, melting face within an archway – a glimpse into the artist’s surreal and dreamlike world. Explore symbolism & Redon’s legacy.

Technique: Hand-painted oil on linen canvas
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Popularity: No. 2 of 793 artworks by Odilon Redon
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Woman in Red

Musée d'Orsay, Paris · original 68 x 53 cm

A striking red cloak defines this mysterious Symbolist pastel by Odilon Redon that captures the enigmatic essence of dreams and invites you to explore the profound depths of his visionary masterpiece.

Technique: Hand-painted oil on linen canvas
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Popularity: No. 3 of 793 artworks by Odilon Redon
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Roger and Angelica

1910 · MOMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City

Discover 'Roger & Angelica' by Odilon Redon (1910). A haunting Symbolist/Expressionist dreamscape of turbulent waves and imposing structures. Explore its moody atmosphere & unique impasto technique.

Technique: Hand-painted oil on linen canvas
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Popularity: No. 4 of 793 artworks by Odilon Redon
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The cyclops

1914 · Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo

Odilon Redon's 'The Cyclops' depicts a haunting dreamscape of Polyphemus and Galatea, blending Greek myth with symbolism & vibrant color. Explore the enigmatic world of this Symbolist masterpiece.

Technique: Hand-painted oil on linen canvas
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Popularity: No. 5 of 793 artworks by Odilon Redon
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Portrait of Paul Gauguin

1903 · Musée d'Orsay, Paris

Odilon Redon's 'Portrait of Paul Gauguin' (1903) captures the essence of the Post-Impressionist painter with symbolic depth and muted colors, housed at Musée d'Orsay.

Technique: Hand-painted oil on linen canvas
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Popularity: No. 6 of 793 artworks by Odilon Redon
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The Window

1907 · Neue Pinakothek, Munich

Experience the dreamlike beauty of Odilon Redon's 'The Window,' a Symbolist masterpiece depicting a mystical stained-glass rose and evoking profound contemplation.

Technique: Hand-painted oil on linen canvas
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Popularity: No. 7 of 793 artworks by Odilon Redon
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The Cyclops

1914 · Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo · original 51 x 64 cm

Odilon Redon's 'The Cyclops' (1914) captures a haunting dreamscape of Polyphemus and Galatea, rendered in evocative oils on board. Explore the symbolism & mystery of this iconic Symbolist masterpiece.

Technique: Hand-painted oil on linen canvas
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Popularity: No. 8 of 793 artworks by Odilon Redon
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Young Girl in a Blue Bonnet

Musée d'Orsay, Paris

Admire 'Young Girl in a Blue Bonnet,' Odilon Redon’s captivating Symbolist portrait. Explore dreamy pastels & intricate details of this evocative artwork – perfect for art collectors.

Technique: Hand-painted oil on linen canvas
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Popularity: No. 9 of 793 artworks by Odilon Redon
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Large Bouquet in a Japanese Vase

1916 · MOMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City

Technique: Hand-painted oil on linen canvas
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Popularity: No. 10 of 793 artworks by Odilon Redon
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On the Horizon, the Angel of Certitude, and in the Dark Sky, A Questioning Glance

1882 · Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles · original 27 x 21 cm

Odilon Redon's 'On the Horizon...' captures mystery & introspection with an angel and questioning eye. A haunting Symbolist lithograph, now available as a stunning hand-painted reproduction.

Technique: Hand-painted oil on linen canvas
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Popularity: No. 11 of 793 artworks by Odilon Redon
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The Black Pegasus

Discover the dreamlike mystery of Odilon Redon's Black Pegasus, a Symbolist masterpiece evoking freedom and fantasy; explore this captivating art today.

Technique: Hand-painted oil on linen canvas
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Popularity: No. 12 of 793 artworks by Odilon Redon
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Peyrelebade Landscape

1868 · Musée d'Orsay, Paris

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Popularity: No. 13 of 793 artworks by Odilon Redon
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Profile of Light

1886 · Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh

Haunting black and white lithograph by Odilon Redon, 1886, captures a solitary figure in a desolate landscape reflecting Symbolist themes of introspection and metamorphosis. Explore this evocative artwork and bring its dreamlike beauty into your collection.

Technique: Hand-painted oil on linen canvas
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Popularity: No. 14 of 793 artworks by Odilon Redon
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Flowers

1905 · Kunstmuseum, St. Gallen · original 58 x 47 cm

Odilon Redon’s ‘Flowers’ (1905) is a captivating Symbolist painting of vibrant blooms, reflecting the artist's fascination with nature and dreams. Explore its rich colors & evocative forms.

Technique: Hand-painted oil on linen canvas
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Popularity: No. 15 of 793 artworks by Odilon Redon
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First a pool of water, then a prostitute, the corner of a temple, a soldier's face, a chariot with two rearing white horses

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1888 · Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago · original 29 x 21 cm

Technique: Hand-painted oil on linen canvas
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Popularity: No. 16 of 793 artworks by Odilon Redon
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Portrait of Madame Redon Embroidering

1880 · Musée d'Orsay, Paris · original 58 x 42 cm

Technique: Hand-painted oil on linen canvas
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Popularity: No. 17 of 793 artworks by Odilon Redon
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Two Young Girls among Flowers

1905 · Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Discover "Two Young Girls Among Flowers" by Odilon Redon – a captivating Symbolist painting of youthful beauty and mystery, featuring vibrant colors & a haunting clock. Explore its symbolism & artistic legacy.

Technique: Hand-painted oil on linen canvas
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Popularity: No. 18 of 793 artworks by Odilon Redon
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The Green Horseman

1904

Experience the dreamlike Symbolism of Odilon Redon's Green Horseman pastel from 1904; explore this ethereal vision of mystery and movement today.

Technique: Hand-painted oil on linen canvas
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Popularity: No. 19 of 793 artworks by Odilon Redon
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Portrait of Marie Botkine

1900 · Musée d'Orsay, Paris · original 64 x 48 cm

Technique: Hand-painted oil on linen canvas
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Popularity: No. 20 of 793 artworks by Odilon Redon
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Head with Flowers

1907

Explore the dreamlike Symbolism of Odilon Redon's Head with Flowers (1907), where mystery blooms from delicate brushwork; discover this ethereal masterpiece today.

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Popularity: No. 21 of 793 artworks by Odilon Redon
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Sacred Heart

1910 · original 46 x 60 cm

Experience the dreamlike symbolism of Odilon Redon's Sacred Heart (1910), featuring a tender scene against an orange sky; discover this masterpiece today.

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Popularity: No. 22 of 793 artworks by Odilon Redon
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Woman and Centaur

1900

Explore the mysterious Symbolism of Odilon Redon's Woman and Centaur (1900), capturing a dreamlike embrace between fantasy and passion; discover this masterpiece today.

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Popularity: No. 23 of 793 artworks by Odilon Redon
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The Yellow Sail

1905 · original 47 x 58 cm

Explore Odilon Redon’s evocative watercolor ‘The Yellow Sail,’ capturing a serene seascape infused with symbolic imagery and dreamlike atmosphere—a masterpiece of Symbolism reflecting the artist's fascination with subconscious landscapes.

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Popularity: No. 24 of 793 artworks by Odilon Redon
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The Birth of Venus

1910

A dreamlike Symbolist masterpiece by Odilon Redon capturing the tranquil arrival of Venus through vibrant colors and ethereal forms, perfect for adding a touch of poetic elegance to your fine art collection.

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Popularity: No. 25 of 793 artworks by Odilon Redon
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The artist

Odilon Redon

1840 – 1916

Quick facts

Mediumsoil on canvas
Color intensitybalanced, vivid
Copyright statusPublic domain
Art period19th Century
Museums on APSLos Angeles County Museum of Art, The Louvre, Musée d'Orsay, Art Institute of Chicago, Brooklyn Museum
Emotional tonemysterious
Works on APS793
NationalityFrance

Biography

Early Life, Family and Training

Born Bertrand-Jean Redon on 20 April 1840 in Bordeaux, Aquitaine, France, the boy who would become known as Odilon Redon entered a world shaped by his family's origins. His mother, Marie Guérin, was a French Creole from Île Bourbon, and it was from her name that he eventually acquired his chosen moniker. Even in his youth, a certain visual aptitude was evident; at the age of ten, he was awarded a drawing prize at school, a small triumph that hinted at the sensitivity he would later apply to his craft.

The path toward an artistic life was not a straight one. Though he began formal study of drawing at fifteen, his father’s wishes initially pulled him toward the structured world of architecture. This pursuit led him to Paris, where in 1864 he briefly studied painting under Jean-Léon Gérôme. However, the rigid requirements of architectural training did not suit his temperament. After failing to pass the entrance exams for the École des Beaux-Arts, he returned to his native Bordeaux to seek a different way of seeing.

In the quiet of his home region, his hands found new textures. He took up sculpture and began to master the intricate, shadowy arts of etching and lithography. It was under the guidance of Rodolphe Bresdin that these technical skills took root, providing him with the tools to explore the darker, more ambiguous realms of the human psyche. These early years of experimentation with line and stone laid the foundation for everything that followed.

The Monochromatic Noirs Period

The course of Redon's life took an unexpected turn in 1870 when the Franco-Prussian War called him to serve in the army. This period of military duty interrupted his developing artistic path, yet it could not extinguish the visions that stirred within him. Upon his return, he turned his focus toward the shadows, working almost exclusively in black and white until he reached his fifties. He began to call these visionary works his noirs, a term that captured the intense, dark nature of his explorations. Through these monochromatic studies, he sought to give form to the unseen, moving away from the literal world to find a language of pure light and darkness.

His method was as varied as the creatures he conjured. He mastered the art of lithography and used charcoal to build his compositions, often layering different materials to achieve a specific depth. He would combine vine and oiled charcoal with touches of compressed charcoal and black crayon to create his effects. These tools allowed him to render nocturnal scenes and strange, fantastical creatures that seemed to emerge from a swirling mist. His hands worked with a deliberate intensity, using the hardness of black chalk to outline forms against the softer, more atmospheric passages of charcoal. The results were not mere drawings but windows into a private, shadowy realm.

Guardian Spirit of the Waters, about 1878
The Crying Spider, 1881

Evolution into Color and Symbolism

As the 1890s arrived, a new light began to touch Redon's studio. The heavy, monochromatic shadows of his earlier years gave way to a sudden embrace of color. He turned his hand to pastels and oils, finding in these mediums a way to express the shifting moods of the soul. This was no mere change in technique, but a profound expansion of his vision. He moved away from the starkness of his charcoal studies toward a dreamlike abstraction, where forms seemed to dissolve into light and hue. This transition marked his place at the heart of the Symbolist movement, as he sought to give shape to the intangible through the language of color.

This newfound luminosity was deeply influenced by the arrival of Japanese art in France. Redon found himself drawn to the aesthetic of Japanese prints, finding much to admire in their flattened perspective and the boldness of their colors. This fascination allowed him to move further into a realm of suggestion rather than literal depiction. His compositions began to reflect this Eastern influence, blending a sense of mystery with a more decorative, ethereal quality. The world he painted was no longer a place of solid objects, but a space of spiritual and emotional resonance.

The Death of Buddha (1899)
The Green Horseman (about 1904)
The Yellow Sail (about 1905)
The Birth of Venus (about 1910)

Key Works and Notable Commissions

As Redon moved away from the shadows of his early years, his brush found new purpose through the patronage of those who shared his fascination with the unseen. Baron Robert de Domecy became a significant figure in this period, commissioning the artist to capture the likenesses of his family. These portraits of the Baroness and her daughter, Jeanne, allowed Redon to apply his evolving sense of light to the human form, seeking to reveal an inner life beneath the surface of the skin.

His imagination often turned toward the myths of old, reimagining them through a lens of dreamlike abstraction. In one notable oil painting, he depicted the myth of Polyphemus and the nymph Galatea, known as The Cyclops. This work captures the giant as he turns a single eye toward the sleeping maiden, a composition that reflects his ability to blend classical subject matter with a sense of psychological mystery. Similarly, his 1900 pastel work, Portrait of Marie Botkine, invites a closer look at the quiet, introspective depths of the subject, rendered with a soft, luminous touch that defines his later style.

In his final years, the influence of Eastern aesthetics became even more pronounced, leading to works that embraced a more decorative and flattened perspective. Toward the end of his life, around 1916, he produced Large Bouquet in a Japanese Vase, a piece that demonstrates how the principles of Japanese art had become deeply woven into his visual language. This late work shows an artist who had fully embraced the power of color to express the intangible.

Technique and Artistic Style

Redon moved through the world of art as a draughtsman, printmaker, and painter, always seeking to place the logic of the visible at the service of the invisible. In his early years, he found a profound language in the shadows, working primarily in black and white. He mastered the art of lithography, using the medium to achieve subtle tonal gradations that allowed light to emerge from deep darkness. To achieve greater precision, he often applied fabricated black chalk to outline specific compositional elements over broad, soft passages of charcoal. These works were often described as a synthesis of nightmares and dreams, where the boundaries between the physical and the imagined became blurred.

As his hand grew more confident, his approach to texture and light shifted. He moved away from the heavy, monochromatic depths of his early charcoal studies toward the use of pastels and oils. This transition allowed him to explore a different kind of luminosity, though he never lost his preoccupation with the subconscious. Even when working with color, his compositions often retained a sense of mystery, as if the subjects were emerging from a dream rather than a physical landscape. His ability to manipulate different media allowed him to translate the most elusive parts of the human psyche into tangible forms.

The Cyclops, about 1914
Portrait of Marie Botkine, 1900
The Death of Ophelia, 1905

Legacy and Influence on Modern Art

The ripples of Redon’s vision reached far beyond the quiet rooms of the Symbolist circle, touching the very foundations of the coming century. By turning his gaze inward to map the strange, irrational territories of the subconscious, he prepared the ground for the Surrealists. His ability to give form to the logic of dreams provided a blueprint for later artists like Marcel Duchamp and Max Ernst, who sought to liberate the mind from the constraints of reason. He did not merely paint scenes; he visualized the unseen currents of human thought, creating a bridge between the visible world and the internal psyche.

This preoccupation with subjective experience and the emotional weight of the unseen also found a deep resonance with the Expressionist painters. His work suggested that the true essence of a subject lay in how it was felt rather than how it was measured by the eye. Beyond his canvases and pastels, his graphic art remains a profound achievement. His lithographs and charcoal drawings, those shadowy explorations of the dark and the mysterious, are regarded as some of the most innovative achievements in nineteenth-century printmaking. He mastered the subtle gradations of tone to suggest worlds that felt both ancient and entirely new.

The Cyclops, about 1914
The Death of Ophelia, 1905
The Birth of Venus, 1910

Where to See His Works Today

To encounter the traces of his imagination, one must travel to the great repositories of European art. In Paris, the Musée d'Orsay holds several of his works, offering a glimpse into the evolution of his vision. Those who seek his more colorful, later explorations might find themselves in New York City, where the Museum of Modern Art preserves several pieces that reflect his shift toward a more luminous aesthetic.

The reach of his influence extends across borders, finding homes in diverse collections. In the Netherlands, the Kröller-Müller Museum houses The Cyclops, a work that captures the mythological and dreamlike qualities of his mid-to-late career. Meanwhile, across the Atlantic, the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles maintains the portrait of Baronne de Domecy, a piece that speaks to the personal connections and commissions that shaped his life.

The Cyclops, Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo
Portrait of Baronne de Domecy, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Questions & Answers

How can I follow Odilon Redon's work year by year?

A timeline of Odilon Redon's works exists: the artist's Artwork Timeline page orders the artworks by creation date.

Where can I see all artworks by Odilon Redon?

Every work by Odilon Redon on this website can be browsed from the artist's All Artworks page.

What are the birthplace and birth year of Odilon Redon?

Odilon Redon was born in Bordeaux in 1840.

By the WikiOO.org Editorial Team Updated Oct. 14, 2026

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