Concern for the Absolute… Philosopher

Odilon Redon, who started out as an artist expressing the original world of "Les Noirs", continued to create charcoal and lithographs in black. In this work, in which various symbolic figures are intricately related, “... a grotesque and bizarre character, hand on chin, eyes anxious and inquiring; he is wearing a cap with bells and a frock coat. Perched on a mountaintop in the shadow of the night, a non-equilateral triangle overlaps the radiant, black sun”(*), according to Redon's record.
Le « Livre de raison » d'Odilon Redon(CD-ROM), Odilon Redon: prince du rêve, 1840-1916, Paris, Réunion des musées nationaux-Grand Palais, Musée d’Orsay, 2011