À rebours
At the end of the war, he moved to Paris and resumed working almost exclusively in charcoal and lithography. He called his visionary works, conceived in shades of black, his "noirs". It was not until 1878 that his work gained any recognition with "Guardian Spirit of the Waters"; he published his first album of lithographs, titled "Dans le Rêve", in 1879. Still, Redon remained relatively unknown until the appearance in 1884 of a cult novel by Joris-Karl Huysmans titled "À rebours (Against Nature)". The story featured a decadent aristocrat who collected Redon's drawings.