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Vase of Flowers
Odilon Redon · 1840–1916
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3 variations + a matched story print, every standard frame ratio. 300 DPI · sRGB · personal-use license.
Museum-quality giclée on Hahnemühle German Etching — heavyweight 310gsm, acid-free, velvety matte. Made to order & shipped.
Sizes in the download
Ready-to-print files at every size below — each drops straight into a standard frame at 300 DPI, nothing cropped:
Each of these also prints big-wall at 150 DPI — up to about 36″ on the short side (so the 24×36″ becomes 36×54″), for a step-back view. Or print the borderless master, the full-resolution scan, sharp to about A3.
The work
The flowers that finally made him a success.
Rapturous flower still lifes like this one dominated the last decade and a half of Odilon Redon's career. They also gave him his greatest commercial success.
Why it matters
A black-and-white master turned, at last, to color.
For more than two decades Redon had worked almost exclusively in black and white. Only in the luminous pastels and paintings he made after 1895 did he reveal his gifts as a colorist, and the turn proved decisive: he stopped making his celebrated black-and-white works, the 'noirs,' after 1900, working thereafter in pastel and oil.
Look closer
Real flowers, remembered as if in a dream.
Redon's lifelong fascination with plants was kindled at age 20 by the Bordeaux botanist Armand Clavaud, whose meticulous flower drawings helped instill his desire to paint nature as seen in a dream. In his bouquets, studied flowers such as poppies and cornflowers reappear as fanciful re-creations, in jewel-like patches of color.
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
- Open access · personal use
- File
- 300 DPI · sRGB · JPEG
