Volume 53, Number 4 · March 9, 2006
The Powers of Invention
By Charles Simic
Beyond the Visible: The Art of Odilon Redon
by Jodi Hauptman, with essays by Marina van Zuylen and Starr Figura
Museum of Modern Art, 284 pp., $55.00
The large recent exhibition of the French artist Odilon Redon (1840– 1916) at the Museum of Modern Art in New York brought together 140 of his paintings, drawings, prints, pastels, and illustrated books and was accompanied by the publication of a lavishly illustrated catalog. In addition to one hundred color plates, Beyond the Visible contains the full inventory of the museum's collection of his art, which is now the largest outside France. It also includes valuable essays on the artist's work by Jodi Hauptman, Marina van Zuylen, and Starr Figura.
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