Melancholy
c. 1868
Odilon Redon
Odilon Redon (French, 1840–1916)
Drawings
Melancholy, c. 1868. Odilon Redon (French, 1840–1916). Graphite on beige wove paper; sheet: 32.1 x 22 cm (12 5/8 x 8 11/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland 1927.299 Odilon Redon grew up near the massive Pyrénées mountains in southern France and their image recurred throughout his work. In a series of drawings made during the 1870s, Redon used the craggy surface and infinite reach of his native landscape to evoke a sense of solitude and isolation. The woman seen here, for example, leans forward and casts her eyes downward as if in resignation. Redon incorporated fantastical details into his mountainous landscape, including a small creature seen faintly directly above the woman and a profile that vaguely appears in the shadows next to her.
- Maker/Artist
- Redon, Odilon
- Classification
- Drawing
- Formatted Medium
- graphite on beige wove paper
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 32.1 x 22 cm (12 5/8 x 8 11/16 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: signed, lower right, in graphite: Od.R
- Departments
- Drawings
- Accession Number
- 1927.299
- Credit Line
- Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland
- Exhibitions
- French Art Since Eighteen Hundred, Drawings from the Museum Collection, Drawings from the Museum Collection, 19th and 20th Century French Art and Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Loans, 40th Anniversary Exhibition of the Print Club of Cleveland, The Lessons of the Academy, Treasures on Paper, Collecting Dreams: Odilon Redon, Nineteenth-Century French Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art, <em>Odilon Redon (1840–1916): Pastels and Drawings</em>. Jacques Seligmann & Co., Inc., New York (October 22–November 10, 1951); Cleveland Museum of Art (November 29, 1951–January 20, 1952); Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (February 1–March 1, 1952)., <em>Odilon Redon: Prince of Dreams 1840–1916</em>. Art Institute of Chicago (July 2–September 18, 1994); Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (October 20, 1994–January 15, 1995); Royal Academy of Arts, London (February 16–May 21, 1995).
- Rights Statement
- CC0
- Museum Location
- 101A Prints & Drawings
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