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A work made of lithograph in black on ivory china paper, laid down on white wove paper.

The Eye, Like a Strange Balloon Moves Towards Infinity, plate one from To Edgar Poe

Odilon Redon · 1882

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Palette

Pale stone
 57% of the image
Grey · text contrast 11.5:1
Mushroom
 14% of the image
Grey · text contrast 7.2:1
Charcoal
 14% of the image
Black · text contrast 13.9:1
Smoke
 8% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.2:1
Iron
 4% of the image
Grey · text contrast 9.7:1
Warm grey
 4% of the image
Grey · text contrast 4.8:1

Colours measured by this site from the museum image (k-means in CIELAB). Names are the nearest in our own list and describe how the colour looks, not the pigment. Text on each chip uses whichever of black or white contrasts more (WCAG ratio shown). How

Details

Artist
Odilon Redon
French, 1840-1916
Date
1882
Type
Print
Medium
Lithograph in black on ivory China paper, laid down on white wove paper
Size
Image/chine: 26.3 × 19.8 cm (10 3/8 × 7 13/16 in.); Sheet: 44.3 × 31.5 cm (17 1/2 × 12 7/16 in.)
Place
France
Period
19th century
Main colour
Grey · lightness 64, colourfulness 9

Art Institute of Chicago, The Stickney Collection. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's is_public_domain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-25); image released under CC0. Licence rules

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