False Glory

False Glory

Odilon Redon, c. 1885

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Artist: Odilon Redon (French, 1840–1916)
Medium: Various charcoals, with incising, stumping, wiping, erasing, and subtractive brushwork, on pale-pink wove paper altered to a pale, golden tone
Size: 49.9 × 33.1 cm (19 11/16 × 13 1/16 in.)
Museum: Art Institute of Chicago
Rights: CC0 — no rights reserved

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.

Text: Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0.

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