Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00009296Vase of Flowers
by Odilon Redon
About the Artwork
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 desire to paint “nature, as seen in a dream.”
Inscriptions
Signed lower right: odilon redon
Provenance
1929: (Georges Bernheim, Paris, France, January 1929, stock no. A498, sold to Knoedler & Co.) 1929: (Knoedler & Co., New York, NY, September 1929, stock no. A1021, sold to George C. Lee) 1929: Mrs. G. C. Lee returned to Knoedler & Co., New York, NY (stock number A1021) November 1929, held jointly with E. Bignou. 1929-1930: (Knoedler & Co., New York, NY, January 1930, stock number A1171, jointly with E. Bignou, sold to Mrs. R.T. Wilson) 1930: Mrs. R.T. Wilson [1875-1947], New York, NY returned to Knoedler & Co., May 1930 1930-1935: (M. Knoedler & Co., New York, NY, December 1935, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) 1935-: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Exhibition history
A survey of French paintings. Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA (organizer) (April 2-May 14, 1935). Autumn Flower Show. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 1-December 1, 1935). The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 26-October 4, 1936). The Silver Jubilee Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 23-September 28, 1941). French Drawings and Watercolors from French Public and Private Collections. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (January 6-February 15, 1942). Picasso and French Republican Art. Grand Rapids Art Museum (March 23-April 15, 1942). 19th and 20th Century French Art and Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Loans. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 22-September 1, 1943). 35th Anniversary Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 20-September 30, 1951). Odilon Redon: 1840-1916. Society of the Four Arts (March 18-April 3, 1955). An Exhibition of Paintings and Pastels by Odilon Redon. Rosenberg & Co. (February 9-March 7, 1959). Art Museum of the Month. Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, MI (organizer) (December 3-31, 1961). The Magic of Still Life. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 4, 1986-February 1, 1987). Monet to Dalí: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Beijing World Art Museum (May 26-August 27, 2006); Mori Art Center (September 16-November 26, 2006); Seoul Art Center, South Korea (December 22, 2006-March 28, 2007); Seoul Olympic Museum of Art, South Korea (April 7-May 20, 2007); Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada (June 9-September 16, 2007); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 21, 2007-January 13, 2008); Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN (February 15-June 1, 2008); Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT (June 22-September 21, 2008); The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (October 12, 2008-January 18, 2009). Working among Flowers: French Still Life in the 19th Century. The Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX (organizer) (October 26, 2014-February 1, 2015); Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA (March 22-June 21, 2015); Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO (July 19-October 11, 2015).
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Odilon Redon (French, 1840–1916)
- Date
- c. 1905
- Medium
- oil on fabric
- Dimensions
- Framed: 90.8 x 62.2 x 10.2 cm (35 3/4 x 24 1/2 x 4 in.); Unframed: 73 x 59 cm (28 3/4 x 23 1/4 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- Painting
- Department
- Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Gift of Roberta Holden Bole
- Accession no.
- 1935.233
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