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Article: Shadows of the Imagination // Fantastic Vision Of Odilon Redon Put in Perspective
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- Chicago Sun-Times
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- July 3, 1994
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`Odilon Redon: Prince of Dreams' Through Sept. 18
The Art Institute of Chicago, 111 S. Michigan
Regenstein Hall, Daniel F. and Ada L. Rice Building
Suggested admission: $6.50, adults; $3.25, seniors, students and
children; Tuesdays, free
Hours: Sunday and holidays, noon to 5 p.m.; Mondays, Wednesdays,
Thursdays and Fridays, 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.; Tuesdays, 10:30 a.m.
to 8 p.m.
(312) 443-3600
`I proceed alone with no other stimulus but my dreams,"
explained the French painter and lithographer Odilon Redon
(1840-1916), when asked about the origins of his fantastic images.
Most often those dreams, a friend later would add, were nightmares.
For more than a half century, ...