Who created "Flower Clouds"?

Flower Clouds was created by Odilon Redon in c. 1903.

When was "Flower Clouds" created?

This artwork was created c. 1903.

Flower Clouds

Q: What medium is "Flower Clouds"?

Flower Clouds is Pastel, with touches of stumping, incising, and brushwork, on blue-gray wove paper with multi-colored fibers altered to tan, perimeter mounted to cardboard.

Odilon Redon

c. 1903

Medium

Pastel, with touches of stumping, incising, and brushwork, on blue-gray wove paper with multi-colored fibers altered to tan, perimeter mounted to cardboard

Dimensions

44.5 × 54.2 cm (17 9/16 × 21 3/8 in.)

Classification

pastel

Department

Prints and Drawings

Museum

Art Institute of Chicago

Accession Number

76395

About the Artist

Odilon Redon · 1840–1916

Odilon Redon (1840-1916) was a French Symbolist painter, printmaker, and pastellist whose visionary art bridged the 19th-century Symbolist movement and 20th-century Surrealism. Born Bertrand Redon in Bordeaux on April 20, 1840, he earned the nickname "Odilon" from his mother Odile. His father, who made his fortune in the Louisiana slave trade, conceived Odilon in New Orleans before the family retu...

Flower Clouds

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