Melancholy

ARTIST

DATE

COPYRIGHT

MEDIUM

Odilon Redon

1876

CC0 Public Domain Designation

Various charcoals and gouache, with pastel and black chalk, and touches of stumping and erasing, on pale-pink wove paper with red and blue fibers altered to a golden tone, laid down on gray wove paper

We are home. All the adrenaline from the night has worn off. Now we are just tired and drunk. Our limbs are heavy and clumsy. Our vision is blurry and the room spins. Light is overwhelming. Our head is already beginning to pound. Our stomach feels weak. We definitely over did it tonight. Tomorrow is going to hurt.

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