Head Wearing a Phrygian Cap, on a Salver
Odilon Redon
1881
Medium
Charcoal with black chalk, stumping, scraping and erasing, on pale pink wove paper with red/pink and blue fibers, discolored to buff
Dimensions
48.4 × 36.3 cm (19 1/16 × 14 5/16 in.)
Classification
charcoal
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
90287
About the Artist
Odilon Redon · 1840–1916
Odilon Redon (1840-1916) was a French Symbolist painter, printmaker, and pastellist whose visionary art bridged the 19th-century Symbolist movement and 20th-century Surrealism. Born Bertrand Redon in Bordeaux on April 20, 1840, he earned the nickname "Odilon" from his mother Odile. His father, who made his fortune in the Louisiana slave trade, conceived Odilon in New Orleans before the family retu...