Fig. 11.Saint John, 1892

Fig. 11.Saint John, 1892. Pastel, over charcoal, on tan wove paper; 42.5 x 29 cm. Private collection, courtesy of Marc de Montebello, New York.
In Saint John, a pastel of 1892 (Figure 11), the manner in which Redon used pastel to create a chromatic composition similarly relied upon the underlying noir to sustain a cohesive composition, although ultimately the noir was almost completely covered beneath layers of pastel.