The French painter and etcher, Odilon Redon, a visionary and a precursor of the surrealists, spent the major part of his artistic career working only with black and white media. Only late in his development did he come to utilize color in his work, producing, for example, delicate and sensitive pastel renderings of floral bouquets. The author's work with two artistic patients with conflicts about color tempts her to take a psychoanalytic approach to this evolution in Redon from sombre black and white to an extraordinary sensitivity to color. In both of her analytic cases, the inhibition concerning color depended on unconscious wishes concerning death, violence, and rage which had not been integrated. In both cases, the experience of fusion was particularly important and involved many themes such as the double and the mirror. Cophignon