Large Vase with Flowers

Large Vase with Flowers by Odilon Redon

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 73 x 54.6 cm (28 3/4 x 21 1/2 in.) framed: 98.7 x 79.7 x 6.9 cm (38 7/8 x 31 3/8 x 2 11/16 in.)

Classification

Painting

Department

CF

Museum

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Credit

Gift of the Honorable John C. Whitehead, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art

Accession Number

1990.64.1

About the Artist

Odilon Redon · 18401916

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...

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