False Glory
Odilon Redon · c. 1885 · Art Institute of Chicago
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This eerie drawing may have had familial ramifications. In the 1880s Redon’s younger brother, Gaston, won the coveted Prix de Rome in architecture, which may have rekindled a kind of sibling rivalry and increased the artist’s own feelings of inadequacy. Reiterating a motif that he had used before, Redon seems to have included a solar eclipse in one of the eyes of the laurel-wreathed bust’s masklike face.
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Details
- Maker
- Odilon Redon, French, 1840-1916
- Date
- c. 1885
- Medium
- Various charcoals, with incising, stumping, wiping, erasing, and subtractive brushwork, on pale-pink wove paper altered to a pale, golden tone
- Dimensions
- 49.9 × 33.1 cm (19 11/16 × 13 1/16 in.)
- Place of origin
- France
- Held by
- Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago · Not on view
- Credit line
- Through prior acquisitions of the David Adler Memorial Fund
Image: Art Institute of Chicago, CC0
