Odilon Redon
French, 1840–1916
Woman with a Vase of Flowers
c. 1903
Redon worked almost entirely in black and white until the 1890s, when he started introducing color into his work. In this painting, a woman leans over a vase of brightly colored flowers, her head and neck bathed in shadow. Like many of the artist’s paintings of this theme, the image combines naturalistic details with a poetic, dream-like mood.
| Medium | oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 23 5/8 x 20 7/8 in. (60 x 53 cm) |
| Object Number | 2014.7 |
| Acquisition | Gift of Heinrich A. Medicus, 2014 |
| Status | On View |
Image Caption
Odilon Redon, Woman with a Vase of Flowers, c. 1903, oil on canvas. Clark Art Institute, gift of Heinrich A Medicus, 2014.7
Provenance
Jakob Heinrich Frey-Baumann, Meggenhorn, Lucerne (around 1930-d.1961); Margaretha Anna Hedwig von Herwarth-Frey, Zurich, his daughter, by descent (1961-d.1978); Heinrich A. Medicus, her cousin, by descent (1978-2014, by gift to the Clark Art Institute in 2014); Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 2014.
