Odilon Redon (1840–1916) was a French Symbolist painter, lithographer, and etcher of considerable poetic sensitivity and imagination.
Redon depicted a variety of motifs including dreams, floral still lives, landscapes, and mythological scenes.
His collection is associated with the Symbolist movement, which is typified by an interest in imbuing art with ambiguous metaphors and themes of romance, morbidity, and the occult.
In both charcoal drawings and lithographic prints, the artist relied on the expressive and suggestive possibilities of black in his monochromatic compositions called noirs. 
Instead of drawing inspiration from what he saw, Redon preferred to paint images from his dreams, nightmares, and stories from mythology.
This resulted in drawings and paintings with a tenuous grasp on realism, and a preferred emphasis on emotion, color, and atmosphere.
His lithographs and noirs in particular were admired by the Symbolist writers of the day but also by later Surrealists for their often bizarre and fantastical subjects, many of which combine scientific observation and visionary imagination.
In the 1890s pastel and oils became his favored media; he produced no more noirs after 1900.
More of Odilon Redon‘s intense artwork can be found at https://www.wikiart.org/en/odilon-redon and https://www.thecollector.com/.
Humoring the Goddess 
Indeed!
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Thank you for sharing his unique work. I am definitely saving this one!
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https://litebeing.com/2015/08/22/the-lament-of-venus-and-other-tales/
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Creepy!!
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I will look for one.
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That spider with the human head gets me….
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I think that’s marvelous! His work is so distinctive! Do you have a blog address I can check your post about him out?
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I so agree! In reading about him, it doesn’t seem that he suffered from manic wildness and depression like other dark artists — and the second half of his career he stayed in color, staying away from shades of black. I have to admit I was more interested in his black and shaded sketches!
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Most unusual for sure!
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I have featured some of his work on my blog. His style is very distinctive.
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Fantastic share! As you do. Many stories could be spun from these images!
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On the dark side, eh? Very creative.
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Very interesting art! He had a very unique mind!
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