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Article: The Mystique Of Odilon Redon
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- The Washington Post
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- May 6, 1988
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WHILE WAITING for your Gauguin passes from the National Gallery,
slip over to the Phillips Collection and see the work of his
contemporary Odilon Redon, who stayed in Paris peering inward while
Gauguin was in the South Seas gazing wildly all about.
Redon (1840-1916), son of a French adventurer and his Louisiana
bride, suffered the artistic disadvantages of wealth, education and
academic training, but nevertheless went his own way. Although
Impressionism swept him up for some years, and permanently influenced
his brushwork, he eventually rejected the style because "I found its
ceiling too low."
And while Redon was intrigued to the point of obsession by the
mystic and the macabre, he also ...