Symbolic Head

Odilon Redon’s ‘Symbolic Head’ was created around 1890. It is an oil on paper mounted on canvas. Cleveland Museum of Art holds this piece.

The painting measures unknown dimensions. The work is part of the 19th-century French culture collection.

Redon shifted to oil and pastel in the 1890s, leaving behind his earlier charcoal works. Hindu and Buddhist themes influenced his later paintings.

Odilon Redon, born Bertrand Redon, gained recognition after his drawings were mentioned in the novel ‘À rebours.’

Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, https://clevelandart.org/art/1988.91