Odilon Redon

“… This is the first book to illustrate the astonishing range of Redon’s art in all its bewildering changes of mood and medium, and at the same time to locate the artist in a Symbolist and Decadent context. His early works are chiefly haunting visions in the sumptuous blacks of charcoal and lithograph; later, toward 1900, his works, in oil and pastel, become more serene and brilliantly colorful. At every stage of his career, Redon was widely misinterpreted by critics who distorted the meaning of his work to fit their own enthusiasm. …”