Perversité
Artist
Odilon Redon
(French, 1840–1916)
Date1891
Mediumetching and drypoint on cream wove paper
Dimensions31.1 x 22.4 cm (sheet)
ClassificationsPrints
Credit LineMuseum Purchase
Object number1919.103
Label TextHeavily influenced by the Symbolist movement and its poet-leader Stéphane Mallarmé (1842-1898), Odilon Redon used the technique of suggestion—as opposed to denotation—to conjure phantasmagoric and foreboding characters.
Upon learning printmaking, Redon shifted much of his practice to lithography and etching because he liked the tonal effects he could achieve. Redon later called his lithographs "Noirs" since they were psychologically driven by the color black. “One must respect black,” he wrote, “Nothing prostitutes it.”
ProvenanceEhrlich Print Gallery, New YorkOn View
Not on view
