Madame Arthur Fontaine
1901 · Pastel on paper
Dimensions 72.4 × 57.2 cm
Collection: Art Whisperer
Marie Escudier Fontaine was the wife of a wealthy Parisian industrialist and art patron whose circle of friends included a number of writers, musicians, and artists, among them André Gide, Claude Debussy, and Vuillard, who twice painted her portrait. Redon executed this likeness, one of his finest and most finished pastels, when the Fontaines came to visit him and his wife at the seaside resort of Saint-Georges-de-Didonne on the southwest coast of France in September 1901.
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About this artwork
Madame Arthur Fontaine (1901) by Odilon Redon, pastel on paper, from the Art Whisperer collection.
About Odilon Redon
Odilon Redon (April 20, 1840 – July 6, 1916) was a French symbolist painter, printmaker, draughtsman and pastellist. During his early years as an artist, Redon's works were described as "a synthesis of nightmares and dreams", as they contained dark, fantastical figures from the artist's own imagination.
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