The Sphinx
1883
Medium
Various charcoals, with touches of black chalk, stumping, wiping, and erasing, on pale-pink wove paper with red and blue fibers altered to a golden tone
Dimensions
52.6 × 37.7 cm (20 3/4 × 14 7/8 in.)
Classification
charcoal
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
90285
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...