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Vase of Flowers
Odilon Redon · 1840–1916
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The work
The flowers that finally made him a success.
Blooms crowd the vase in jewel-bright patches, more felt than counted. Rapturous flower still lifes like this one filled the last decade and a half of Redon's career. They gave him his greatest commercial success.
Why it matters
A black-and-white master turned, at last, to colour.
The colour here is the whole event. For more than two decades Redon had worked almost only in black and white. Not until the luminous pastels and paintings after 1895 did his gift as a colorist surface, and the turn held: he stopped making his celebrated black-and-white works, the 'noirs,' after 1900. Pastel and oil carried him the rest of the way.
Look closer
Real flowers, remembered as if in a dream.
Look for poppies and cornflowers among the petals, studied from life yet loosened into fanciful re-creations, set down in jewel-like patches of colour. Redon's fascination with plants began at twenty, kindled by the Bordeaux botanist Armand Clavaud, whose meticulous flower drawings stayed with him. They left him wanting to paint nature as seen in a dream.
the logic of the visible at the service of the invisible— Odilon Redon
The file & the facts
- Title
- Vase of Flowers
- Artist
- Odilon Redon
- Year
- c. 1905
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Original
- 73 × 59 cm
- Collection
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Rights
- Public-domain painting · open access · The Cleveland Museum of Art — Gift of Roberta Holden Bole, 1935.233 (CC0, courtesy)
- File
- sRGB · JPEG · 150–300 DPI
