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    Museum collections / Art Institute of Chicago
    Flower Clouds
    Odilon Redon. Flower Clouds, c. 1903. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00003301

    Flower Clouds

    by Odilon Redon

    View at the Art Institute of Chicago

    Inscriptions

    Signed lower left, in black conté crayon: "ODILON REDON"

    Provenance

    Sold by the artist to Charles Waltner, Paris, February 1904 [Chicago 1994]; Charles Waltner, to 1926 [Wildenstein 1996]. Marcel Kapferer, Paris, c. 1930 [Wildenstein 1996]. Vogel, Versoix, Switzerland, 1947 [Wildenstein 1996]. Private collection, Switzerland, c. 1989 [Wildenstein 1996]. Sold, Hôtel des Ventes, Enghein, France, November 21, 1989, lot 8. Sold by Altman-Burke Fine Art Inc., New York, to the Art Institute, 1990.

    Exhibition history

    Paris, Grand Palais, Salon d’automne, October 18-November 25, 1905, cat. 1311, as "Marine". Paris, Hôtel de Ville, "Cercle d’art moderne," June 1906, cat. 27, as "Barque". Paris, Galerie Barbazanges, "Odilon Redon," May 18- June 15, 1920, cat. 136, as "Barque au soleil couchant". Paris, Galerie H. Odermatt, Ph. Cazeau, "Maîtres des XIX et XX Siècles," May 4-July 28, 1990, cat. 8. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Odilon Redon: Prince of Dreams 1840-1916," July 2-September 18, 1994, no. 137, cat. by Douglas Druick, et al; the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, October 20, 1994-January 15, 1995, and the Royal Academy of Arts, London, February 16-May 21, 1995. The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Broad Spectrum: Color on Paper, Past and Present," September 12–October 31, 1999, p. 256-257 (detail ill.). The Art Institute of Chicago, "Strange Realities: The Symbolist Imagination", October 4, 2025 - January 5, 2026.

    Publications

    Henry Eon, Le Siècle (October 17, 1905). Louis Vauxcelles, "Salle 1," Le Gil Blas (October 17, 1905). Aubry, Le Petit Havre (November 7, 1905). Quentin, Le Moniteur du XXème Siècle (November 5, 1905). Ètienne Charles, "Odilon Redon," La Liberté (March 24, 1906). M. Giry, "L’oeuvre de Redon et sa signification ver 1905," L’imformation d’histoire de l’art 2 (March-April 1970), p. 69. The Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report (1989-1990), p. 5 (ill.). "La Chronique des Arts. Principales Acquisitions des Musées en 1990," Gazette des Beaux-Arts (March 1991), p. 61 (ill.). James N. Wood and Sally Ruth May, The Art Institute of Chicago: The Essential Guide (Chicago, 1993), p. 215 (ill.). Oktavia Christ, "Wiederentdexkung eines Mystikers," Kunst und Antiquitäten (December 1994), p. 17 (ill.). J. Coignard, "Odilon Redon, Prince des Mystérieux Rêves," Beaux-Arts Magazine (December 1994), p. 92-93 (ill.). Alec Wildenstein, Odilon Redon, Catalogue raisonné de l’oeuvre peint et dessiné 3 (Paris, 1996), p. 352, no. 1954 (ill.). James Wood, Treasures from The Art Institute of Chicago (New York, 2000), p. 236 (ill.). Dario Gamboni, Potential Images: Ambiguity and Indeterminacy in Modern Art (2002). Harriet K. Stratis and Britt Salvesen (eds.), The Broad Spectrum: Studies in the Materials, Techniques, and Conservation of Color on Paper (London, 2002), pp. 265-157 (detail ill.). Gerald Bromme and Nancy Kinne, Exploring Painting (2002). The Essential Guide (Chicago, 2009), p. 307 (ill.).

    Open-access museum data

    This record comes from the open-access collection data that the Art Institute of Chicago publishes for unrestricted use (Creative Commons Zero). Art Trackers shows a selection of the museum's published fields. The Art Institute of Chicago is not an Art Trackers client and has not reviewed or endorsed this page; the museum's own website is the authoritative record.

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    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Odilon Redon / French, 1840-1916
    Date
    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.)
    Type
    Drawing
    Classification
    pastel
    Style
    Post-Impressionism
    Place
    France
    Department
    Prints and Drawings
    Credit line
    Through prior bequest of Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection
    Accession no.
    1990.165

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