The Little Abbot Reading the Ramayana
Odilon Redon · 1883 · Charcoal with black chalk, stumping, scraping and erasing, on dark cream wove paper, discolored to tan. Ruled in pale red-orange pastel. Offset impression of Tadpole, verso.
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Marked public domain (CC0) by the Art Institute of Chicago.
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About this picture
The Little Abbot Reading the Ramayana is a public-domain drawing by Odilon Redon, dated 1883. Charcoal with black chalk, stumping, scraping and erasing, on dark cream wove paper, discolored to tan. Ruled in pale red-orange pastel. Offset impression of Tadpole, verso.. The file comes from Art Institute of Chicago.
“The Little Abbot Reading the Ramayana” (1883) sits between something Redon had looked at and something he invented, whether it is one of the charcoal noirs or a later pastel.
About the artist
Odilon Redon (1840–1916) was a French artist of charcoal “noirs” and, later, glowing pastels of flowers, boats, and dream figures. The pictures sit between observed nature and something invented.
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