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Count the butterflies around the bouquet, then compare the crisp red flowers with the softer shapes that fade into the background.
A tall brown vase holds a loose bouquet of red, pink, white and blue flowers against a pale, mottled background. Butterflies drift around the bouquet, and some petals and leaves seem to float free of it. Redon painted it in oil in 1905, and it came to the Art Institute as a gift of Mary and Leigh Block.
Oil on canvas · 92.7 × 65.5 cm · Art Institute of Chicago · Post-Impressionism
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- Museum title
- Still Life with Flowers
- Artist
- Odilon Redon (French, 1840–1916)
- Date
- 1905
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 92.7 × 65.5 cm (36 1/2 × 25 3/4 in.); Framed: 111.2 × 84.2 × 6.7 cm (43 3/4 × 33 1/8 × 2 5/8 in.)
- Credit line
- Gift of Mary and Leigh Block
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.