Odilon Redon was a Symbolist painter and colorist of the late 19th century. His art explores the intricacies of thought, the dark and esoteric aspect of the human soul, imbued with the mechanisms of dreams. His father married a Creole of French origin in the Americas. They returned to France five or six years later. This journey would influence the painter: this taste for fruitful dreams, this need for imagination and escape, notably the recurring motif of the boat in his work, are part of this perspective. Redon was from the outset a spiritually stateless artist. At seven, he decided to be an artist, his family agreed, he continued his studies and took drawing and watercolor lessons with his first teacher Stanislas Gorin, a pupil of Eugène Isabey, he discovered Millet, Corot, Gustave Moreau.