Vase of Flowers
c. 1905
- Medium
- oil on fabric
- Dimensions
- 73 × 59 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-109565
Rapturous flower still lifes like this dominated the last decade and a half of Odilon Redon’s career and provided his greatest commercial success. His interest in plants and flowers began in his youth; child of wine producers, he grew up northwest of Bordeaux and was sensitive to fluctuations in weather, light, and temperature affecting the grape harvest. When he was 20, Redon met Armond Clavaud, a botanist and draftsman who illustrated his own compendium of flowers of the Bordeaux region. Clavaud’s meticulously rendered drawings sparked the young Redon’s imagination and helped to instill his…
Provenance
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Roberta Holden Bole, 1935.233
Registry history
- c. 1905 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
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