Cleveland Museum of Art

Roger Marx

Odilon Redon

Date

1904

Medium

lithograph on China paper laid on wove paper

Culture

France, early 20th Century

Department

Prints

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

Later in life, Odilon Redon turned to portraiture, creating likenesses of both commissioned sitters and his close friends. This print represents a figure central to his artistic and social milieu: Roger Marx was an influential critic who championed Redon’s work. Redon depicted only the head and profile of his subject, sketching Marx with fine and delicate detail. He produced just a small number of impressions of the lithograph, accentuating its personal and intimate theme. Roger Marx (1859–1913), was an influential collector in addition to his work as an art critic.

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