Editing Odilon Redon (section)

==Career==
[[File:Odilon Redon.jpg|thumb|upright|left|''Self-Portrait'', 1880, [[Musée d'Orsay]]]]
At the end of the war, Redon moved to Paris and resumed working almost exclusively in charcoal and lithography. He called his visionary works, conceived in shades of black, his ''noirs''. It was not until 1878 that his work gained any recognition with ''Guardian Spirit of the Waters''; he published his first album of lithographs, titled ''Dans le Rêve'', in 1879. Still, Redon remained relatively unknown until the appearance in 1884 of a cult novel by [[Joris-Karl Huysmans]] titled ''[[À rebours]]'' (''Against Nature'').<ref name="Kunst, Künstler, Ausstellungen, Kunstgeschichte e-Kunstmagazin 2014">{{cite web | title=Odilon Redon: Schwarze Phantasien zu Farbe und Mystik | website=Kunst, Künstler, Ausstellungen, Kunstgeschichte | date=8 February 2014 | url=https://artinwords.de/odilon-redon/ | language=de | access-date=8 February 2023}}</ref><ref name="Redon 2018">{{cite web | last=Redon | first=Odilon | title=Des Esseintes, Frontispiece for A Rebours by J.K. Huysmans | website=The Art Institute of Chicago | date=21 January 2018 | url=https://www.artic.edu/artworks/79435/des-esseintes-frontispiece-for-a-rebours-by-j-k-huysmans | access-date=8 February 2023}}</ref> The story featured a decadent aristocrat who collected Redon's drawings.<ref name="Huysmans Capsius 2012 p. ">{{cite book | last1=Huysmans | first1=Joris-Karl | last2=Capsius | first2=M. | title=Gegen den Strich | publication-place=Altenmünster | date=2012 | isbn=978-3-8496-1684-7 | oclc=863958649 | language=de | page=}}</ref>

In 1886, Redon exhibited his work with the [[Impressionism|Impressionists]] in their the last exhibition.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Odilon Redon (The J. Paul Getty Museum Collection) |url=https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/person/103M1J |access-date=8 February 2023 |website=The J. Paul Getty Museum Collection |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Samu |first=Margaret |date=October 2004 |title=Impressionism: Art and Modernity |url=https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/imml/hd_imml.htm |access-date=8 February 2023 |website=www.metmuseum.org}}</ref> The same year, he also began participating in the exhibitions of [[Les XX]] in Brussels.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Anonymous |date=31 October 2018 |title=Melancholy |url=https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1927.299 |access-date=8 February 2023 |website=Cleveland Museum of Art |language=en}}</ref>

In the 1890s, Redon worked in pastel and oil; he did not make ''noirs'' after 1900. In 1899, he exhibited with the [[Les Nabis|Nabis]] at [[Durand-Ruel]]'s.<ref name="Catplus.de 2015">{{cite web | title=Odilon Redon – Tiermalerei – Tiere in der Kunst | website=Catplus.de | date=6 November 2015 | url=https://www.catplus.de/tiermalerei/odilon-redon/ | language=de | access-date=8 February 2023}}</ref><ref name="Christie's 2022">{{cite web | title=ODILON REDON (1840–1916) | website=Christie's | date=19 November 2022 | url=https://www.christies.com/lot/lot-6397316?ldp_breadcrumb=back&intObjectID=6397316&from=salessummary&lid=1 | access-date=8 February 2023}}</ref>

Redon had a keen interest in [[Hinduism|Hindu]] and [[Buddhism|Buddhist]] religion and culture. The figure of the [[Buddha]] increasingly showed in his work. Influences of [[Japonisme]] blended into his art, such as the painting ''The Death of the Buddha'' around 1899, ''The Buddha'' in 1906, ''Jacob and the Angel'' in 1905, and ''Vase with Japanese Warrior'' in 1905, among others.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/drawings-watercolors/odilon-redon-vase-au-guerrier-japonais-5289376-details.aspx |title=Odilon Redon (1840–1916) &#124; Vase au guerrier japonais &#124; IMPRESSIONIST & MODERN ART Auction &#124; 20th Century, Drawings & Watercolors &#124; Christie's |publisher=Christies.com |date=2 February 2010 |access-date=9 March 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://pressimages.fondationbeyeler.ch/aktuelle-ausstellungen/odilon-redon |title=Odilon Redon &#124; Press Images – Fondation Beyeler |publisher=Pressimages.fondationbeyeler.ch |access-date=9 March 2015}}</ref>

[[File:Odilon redon, figure dalla decorazione della sala da parnzo del castello di domecy, 1901, 09.JPG|thumb|upright|''Trees on a yellow Background'', one of the panels painted in 1901 for the dining room of the [[Château de Domecy-sur-le-Vault]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/collections/index-of-works/notice.html?nnumid=025623 |title=Musée d'Orsay: non_traduit |publisher=Musee-orsay.fr |date=14 October 1987 |access-date=9 March 2015}}</ref>]]
Baron Robert de Domecy (1867–1946) commissioned Redon in 1899 to create 17 decorative panels for the dining room of the [[Château de Domecy-sur-le-Vault]] near [[Sermizelles]] in [[Burgundy]]. Redon had created large decorative works for private residences in the past, but his compositions for the château de Domecy in 1900–1901 were his most radical compositions to that point and mark the transition from ornamental to abstract painting. The landscape details do not show a specific place or space. Only details of trees, twigs with leaves, and budding flowers in an endless horizon can be seen. The colors used are mostly yellow, grey, brown and light blue. The influence of the Japanese painting style found on folding screens, ''[[byōbu]]'', is discernible in his choice of colors and the rectangular proportions of most of the up to 2.5 metres high panels. Fifteen of them are located today in the [[Musée d'Orsay]], acquired in 1988.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/collections/index-of-works/notice.html |title=Musee d'Orsay : Homepage |publisher=Musee-orsay.fr |access-date=9 March 2015 |archive-date=9 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210509223814/https://musee-orsay.fr/en/collections/index-of-works/notice.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Domecy also commissioned Redon to paint portraits of his wife and their daughter Jeanne, two of which are in the collections of the Musée d'Orsay and the [[Getty Museum]] in California.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/collections/works-in-focus/painting/commentaire_id/baronne-robert-de-domecy-8842.html?tx_commentaire_pi1pidLi=509&tx_commentaire_pi1from=841&cHash=abd6d391a6|title=Musée d'Orsay: Odilon Redon Baroness Robert de Domecy|date=4 February 2009|access-date=10 October 2014|archive-date=4 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304083346/http://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/collections/works-in-focus/painting/commentaire_id/baronne-robert-de-domecy-8842.html?tx_commentaire_pi1pidLi=509&tx_commentaire_pi1from=841&cHash=abd6d391a6|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/artObjectDetails?artobj=257416 |title=Baronne de Domecy (Getty Museum) |publisher=Getty.edu |access-date=9 March 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141016184507/http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/artObjectDetails?artobj=257416 |archive-date=16 October 2014 }}</ref> Most of the paintings remained in the Domecy family collection until the 1960s.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/lot.pdf.N08633.html/f/46/N08633-46.pdf |title=Sotheby's Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale |publisher=Sothebys.com |access-date=9 March 2015}}</ref>

[[File:La Nuit (The Night) - 1910-1911 - Odilon Redon.jpg|thumb|400px|left|''The Night'', c. 1910–1911, part of a series of decorative panels by Odilon Redon commissioned by Gustave Faret and located in the [[Fontfroide Abbey]] library<ref>Geipel, Gary (25 January 2013). [https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887324624404578257774171765906  "A Late Blooming"]. The Wall Street Journal</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.patrimoine-environnement.fr/labbaye-de-fontfroide-accueille-une-exposition-du-peintre-odilon-redon/|title=L’abbaye de Fontfroide accueille une exposition du peintre Odilon Redon – Fédération Patrimoine-Environnement}}</ref>]]
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