“Collecting Dreams: Odilon Redon” runs from 19th September 2021, through 23rd January 2022, at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Includes a newly acquired…
“group of drawings that Redon termed ‘noirs’ for their use of black materials, such as charcoal, and their foreboding mood”
Meanwhile, at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, “Bonger and Redon, Friendship and Collecting” from 29th October 2021 up and until 30th January 2022…
“The finest works by Redon will be presented at the museum from the end of October: dark charcoal drawings, but also colourful pastels, paintings and wall decorations, illuminating the special interplay between the artist and collector.”
“Hideous Larvae” (1896)
What’s the connection between HPL and Odilon Redon?
Lovecraft was told of him by C. Ashton Smith in October 1926, and replied…
“Of the artists you mention the work of Redon & Ryder is still unfamiliar to me.”
I’m uncertain if he later discovered or saw more of Redon, however. I don’t yet have the Lovecraft-Smith letters.