Odilon Redon
Redon was inspired to depict flowers after meeting the botanist Armand Clavaud, a cataloger of plant species in the artist's native region of Bordeaux.
Inspired by Cleveland’s groundbreaking acquisitions of Odilon Redon’s artworks during the 1920s, local philanthropist and collector Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. purchased this luminous pastel of a floral still life in 1937. Hanna acquired it from Jacques Seligmann, a dealer based in New York City and Paris who was fundamental in bringing 19th-century French art to American audiences. In 1939, Hanna loaned the pastel to the New York World’s Fair, where it represented Redon’s work. Those who saw it there were attracted to the vivid color and timeless subject, which preoccupied the artist at the end of his life.
We present today's work thanks to the Cleveland Museum of Art.
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P.P.S. This is a remarkably colorful painting for Odilon Redon. He is known more for dark and creepy figures. :O