Jewelry dazzles in MFA exhibit Jul 25, 2008
We know what a tumultuous period the 1890s were in art (any period associated with artists as magnificently overripe as Gustave Moreau, Paul Gauguin, Edvard Munch, and Odilon Redon has to be worth getting to know). So it's perhaps not surprising that jewelry experienced tropical spasms of its own. (Boston Globe)
Where The Wheelchairs Roam Jul 20, 2008
Among the collection's treasures are etchings from late in Goya's career and works by Max Klinger, Max Ernst, Odilon Redon, Paul Klee, Jean Dubuffet and printmaker Piranesi. A film program includes work by Bunuel and others. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Travel)
City of Basel Rejects Bid for Munch, Chagall Art by Nazi Victim's Heirs Mar 1, 2008
The works Glaser sold that are now in the Basel museum's collection include a lithograph self-portrait by Munch, several etchings by Beckmann and Corinth, lithographs by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Erich Heckel, Max Pechstein, Odilon Redon, Matisse and Paul Klee and drawings by Auguste Rodin. A Munch print sold for more than $1 million in Norway in 2006, putting it among the most expensive prints ever sold. (Bloomberg -- Germany)
Modernism's odd man out Apr 9, 2007
rusier, Odilon Redon, Paul Ranson and Ker Xavier Roussel. (Gide bought the painting, writing to Denis: "I cannot allow my life to be spoiled by the jealousy I would feel toward anyone else who owned this canvas.") One can't help but feel the richness of the cultural moment Denis found himself in. (Globe and Mail)
Eyeballs Float, Spiders Laugh; Odilon Redon Exhibit at Frankfurt's Schirn Feb 3, 2007
Eyeballs Float, Spiders Laugh in Odilon Redon Show in Frankfurt ... They are at the Schirn Kunsthalle, forming part of Germany's first exhibition in 20 years of works by the French artist Odilon Redon (1840-1916. (Bloomberg -- Germany)
Drawn to excellence (Joanna Shaw-Eagle) May 13, 2006
The last room, with the latest and most painterly of these drawings, gives us a strangely beautiful "Cactus Man" portrait by Odilon Redon and Francisco Goya's grotesque "Mascaras Crueles (Cruel Masks)." They're actually linearly conceived works on paper, as they are described by Margaret Morgan Grasselli, exhibit curator and National Galley curator of drawings. The exhibit cools down a bit with Edgar Degas' lively "Spanish Dancers and Musicians," three exquisitely rendered Jean-Auguste-Dominique... (Washington Times)
The Perfume of Sadness: Symbolist Art from the Kirk Long Collection Apr 19, 2006
Major Symbolist artists represented in the exhibition include Jean Delville, Ferdinand Khnopff, Max Klinger, and Odilon Redon ... " Symbolist pictures, poems, and prose are complex and pungent, their dense allusions, opulent language, and sensuous imagery representing parallel means to similar intellectual and emotional ends. "The music of words, new color harmonies, synaesthesia, the fusion of media, and the mixing of metaphorsas in the exhibition's title, which is taken from a poem by Stephan... (AbsoluteArts.com)
The next blockbuster exhibition: Cézanne - A life in pictures Feb 15, 2006
" The exhibition traces C;zanne's development as an artist: his expressive works "painted as though with mud" of the 1860s including The Abduction; the Impressionist pictures of the 1970s where he experimented with a lighter colour palette in works including Pool at the Jas de Bouffan; his "synthetic" works of the 1880s and 1890s, such as the Card Players and the highly-resolved work from the later period of his life, including Still Life With Teapot. The National Museum of Wales was a... (The Independent, UK)
