Wildflowers

c. 1905

Odilon Redon

Artist, French, 1840 - 1916

A bouquet of coral orange, bright yellow, and periwinkle blue flowers and greenery are arranged in a teal-green vase in this pastel drawn on brown paper. The orange flowers have long, curved petals. The yellow flowers have wide blooms with spiky petals, and the blue blossoms are smaller with wispy petals. The vase has a narrow opening and wide shoulders. The background is mostly the tan of the paper with some light-handed, black shading to the right. The artist signed the drawing in the lower right corner, “Odile Redon.”

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pastel on brown wove paper coated with sawdust

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Loula D. Lasker

  • Dimensions

    overall: 64.1 x 50 cm (25 1/4 x 19 11/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1961.12.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Wildenstein vol. 3, no. 1633

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

2019

  • The Touch of Color: Pastels at the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2019 - 2020, unnumbered catalogue.

Bibliography

1965

  • Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 108.

1968

  • National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 95, repro.

1975

  • European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 282, repro.

1984

  • Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 515, no. 778, color repro.

1992

  • Wildenstein, Alec. Odilon Redon, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint et dessiné. 4 vols. Paris, 1992-98, vol. 3: no. 1633 (repr.).

Inscriptions

lower right in graphite: ODILON REDON

Wikidata ID

Q64618523

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