Odilon Redon

Odilon Redon (born Bertrand Redon) was a French Symbolist draftsman, printmaker, and painter known for his dreamlike, fantastical works that foreshadowed Surrealism and Dadaism[1][2]. Born in Bordeaux in 1840 and dying in Paris in 1916, he created haunting monochrome prints early in his career before embracing vibrant colors in the 1890s[1][5]. His art, inspired by writers like Edgar Allan Poe and Charles Baudelaire, sought to 'place the visible at the service of the invisible'[5].