Large Bouquet of Wildflowers
by Odilon Redon
Title
Large Bouquet of Wildflowers
Artist
Odilon Redon
Medium
Painting - Oil On Board
Description
The extensive series of flower paintings, both in oil and pastel, which began to emerge in Odilon Redon’s work during the late 1890s and early 1900s, marked a distinctive turning point in the artist’s oeuvre. Painted circa 1900-1905, Large Bouquet of Wildflowers emerged during this key period of transition and captures the spirit of experimentation and bold, effusive approach to color that defined Redon’s floral subjects during these years, as he sought to combine the traditions of the still life genre with his own idiosyncratic creative outlook.
The composition focuses on a bouquet of summer wildflowers, in which a variety of blooms, including poppies, asters, daisies, and cornflowers, are all gathered together in a heady bundle of explosive color. Executed in an array of intensely vibrant, vivacious tones, the flowers seem to have been arranged in a haphazard, organic manner, their forms almost ready to spill over the edges of the slender vase that houses them, as they jostle for space. Echoing the natural arrangement of such blossoms in a meadow, they embody the essential beauty that led Redon to proclaim “I do not know of anything that has given me more pleasure than such an appreciation of simple flowers in their vase breathing air”.
(c) Christie's
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