Seen/Unseen: A Closer Look at Odilon Redon Drawings

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Skeletons against a black background.

La Bataille des Os (The Battle of the Bones), about 1881, Odilon Redon. Charcoal and pastel with stumping and removal on tan paper, 14 3/8 × 17 11/16 in. Getty Museum, 2024.17

Sunday, Oct 4, 2026

4pm

Getty Center

Museum Lecture Hall

Free

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About

The exhibition Odilon Redon: Otherworldly Visions highlights Getty’s collection of the artist’s moody charcoal drawings and vibrant pastels. By focusing on Redon’s materials and techniques, it builds upon important research on 19th-century drawing media developed over the past decade by Getty paper conservators, conservation scientists, and curators.

Join curator Danielle Canter and conservator Michelle Sullivan to hear new insights into Redon’s complex artistic methods and their surprising discoveries, from hidden skeletons to vanishing colors. They delve into Redon’s significant drawing practice, illuminating the collaborative research and technical study that informed the exhibition.

For in-person attendees, light refreshments follow the program.

Presented in collaboration with the Drawing Foundation.

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    Speakers

    1. Danielle Canter

      Assistant Curator

      Danielle specializes in 19th-century French drawings and prints. She earned an MA in the History of Art at Williams College and is now completing her PhD at the University of Delaware. Prior to joining the Getty Museum's Department of Drawings in 2023, Danielle worked at the Morgan Library & Museum and held fellowships at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Her research interests include the relationship between drawing and print practices, technical art history, and artistic collaboration.

    2. Michelle Sullivan

      Associate Conservator of Drawings

      Michelle joined the Getty Museum’s Department of Paper Conservation in 2015. She holds an MS and certificate of advanced study in art conservation from the Winterthur/University of Delaware program in art conservation and a BA in art history and studio art from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her training has included graduate internships and fellowships at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, Smithsonian American Art Museum, and the J. Paul Getty Museum. Michelle’s research interests include non-invasive, in-situ analysis to characterize drawing media and the application of rigid gels in the conservation treatment of works of art on paper, a subject on which she has previously lectured, published, and taught workshops.

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