La Maison hantée - Odilon Redon
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A series of atmospheric lithographs by Odilon Redon, exploring themes of the uncanny and the subconscious through masterful use of light and shadow.
La Maison hantée, produced in 1896, is a series of lithographs by the French Symbolist artist Odilon Redon. This collection was created to accompany a French translation of the short story by Edward Bulwer-Lytton. Redon, known for his mastery of black and white media, utilised the lithographic process to explore themes of the subconscious, the uncanny, and the supernatural.
The series demonstrates Redon's ability to manipulate light and shadow to create an atmosphere of psychological tension. Rather than depicting the narrative in a literal fashion, the prints focus on the emotional weight of the environment. The compositions often feature stark contrasts, where deep, velvety blacks emerge from the paper to obscure figures or architectural elements. This technique forces the viewer to engage with the ambiguity of the scenes, as forms appear to dissolve into the surrounding darkness.
Redon's approach to the subject matter is characteristic of his broader body of work, which he termed his 'noirs'. These images do not rely on external reality but instead draw from the internal world of dreams and anxieties. The figures, often isolated or partially hidden, contribute to a sense of unease. The architectural spaces, such as staircases or dimly lit rooms, are rendered with a focus on texture and tone rather than precise perspective. This stylistic choice enhances the dreamlike quality of the series, making the domestic setting feel alien and mysterious. As a collection, these prints represent a significant moment in the history of book illustration, where the artist acts as an interpreter of the text's mood rather than a mere illustrator of its plot. The technical execution of the lithography allows for a range of grey tones that soften the edges of the dark forms, creating a cohesive visual experience that remains haunting and evocative.
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Museum-grade giclée on FSC-certified archival matte paper, with framed and canvas options.
- Paper sizes: A4, A3, A2, A1, A0 and B2 (50×70 cm)
- Canvas: XS (20×30 cm) to Large (60×90 cm)
- Frames: black, natural wood, dark wood or white
La Maison hantée - Odilon Redon
Artist Biography
Odilon Redon
For the first two decades of his career he worked exclusively in black: charcoal drawings and lithographs he called his noirs. Floating eyeballs, severed heads with closed lids, spiders with human faces, plants that grow teeth. The images are hallucinatory but precisely rendered, closer to medical illustration than fantasy. He published his first lithograph album, Dans le Reve, in 1879. Nobody noticed.
Recognition came sideways. In 1884, Joris-Karl Huysmans published A rebours, a novel about a reclusive aesthete who decorates his rooms with Redon's prints. The book became a cult text for the Symbolist movement and Redon became famous by association. Stephane Mallarme, the Symbolist poet, became a close friend. Redon also completed a series of lithographs dedicated to Edgar Allan Poe, whose poems Mallarme and Baudelaire had translated into French.
After 1900 he stopped making noirs entirely and shifted to colour: pastels and oils of flowers, mythological figures and butterflies in palettes that anticipate Matisse. The transition was so complete that the Surrealists later claimed the black work while the Fauves claimed the colour, and neither group seemed to notice they were talking about the same person.
He studied under Jean-Leon Gerome at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, which is an unlikely pairing: Gerome painted Roman gladiators with photographic precision. Redon painted eyeballs attached to balloons. Goya and Delacroix were the influences that actually stuck.
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