Affluent bourgeois family
With Stanislas Gorin; briefly
With Jean-Léon Gérôme in Paris
With Rodolphe Bresdin
1870s – settles in Paris; begins work on charcoal Noirs
1879 – publication of lithograph series Dans le rêve
1884 – helps organize first Salon des Indépendants; publication of Joris-Karl Huysmans’s novel A rebours (Against the Grain) which praises Redon’s work
1886 – exhibits at the last Impressionist Exhibition and with Les XX (Brussels)
1888 – album of lithographs inspired by Gustave Flaubert’s The Temptation of St Anthony (1874) published
1890 – publication of lithographs inspired by Charles Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du mal (The Flowers of Evil)
1899 – exhibits at Galerie Durand-Ruel (Paris)
1904 – exhibits at Salon d’Automne (Paris)
1910 – executes decorative murals for library of Fontfroide Abbey (near Narbonne)
1913 – exhibits at American Armory Show (New York)
Head of Orpheus, c. 1881 (Museum of Modern Art, New York)
The Eye Like a Strange Balloon Mounts Toward Infinity, 1882 (lithograph, Museum of Modern Art)
The Masque of the Red Death, 1883 (drawing, Museum of Modern Art)
Ophelia among the Flowers, 1905-08 (The National Gallery, London)
Andre Bonger
Gustave Fayet
Gabriel Frizeau