Etruscan Vase with Flowers
“I have made an art according to myself. I have done it with eyes open to the marvels of the visible world and, whatever anyone might say, always careful to obey the laws of nature and life.”
– Odilon Redon, “Confessions of an Artist”
Having achieved an already considerable reputation as a draughtsman on paper, in his works in black and white—his “noirs”, as the artist called them— but among a limited if dedicated clientele of connoisseurs, Redon sought to expand the market for his art. The burden of outstanding debts following the sale of his family’s estate in Peyrelebade, Gironde, dictated a need for increasing the income from his work.
Odilon Redon turned to the genre of the floral still-life, first in pastel and subsequently in oils as well, around 1900, when he was sixty years old. In discussing an early naturalistic example of this subject he had painted for Andries Bonger, one of his most loyal collectors, Redon wrote, “I have in my mind’s eye as one of the good things that I have painted, this vase of flowers, which has remained a vision for me... I do not know of anything that has given me more pleasure than such an appreciation of simple flowers in their vase breathing air”.
• Paper thickness: 10.3 mil
• Paper weight: 5.57 oz/y² (189 g/m²)
• Giclée printing quality
• Opacity: 94%
• ISO brightness: 104%
“I have made an art according to myself. I have done it with eyes open to the marvels of the visible world and, whatever anyone might say, always careful to obey the laws of nature and life.”
– Odilon Redon, “Confessions of an Artist”
Having achieved an already considerable reputation as a draughtsman on paper, in his works in black and white—his “noirs”, as the artist called them— but among a limited if dedicated clientele of connoisseurs, Redon sought to expand the market for his art. The burden of outstanding debts following the sale of his family’s estate in Peyrelebade, Gironde, dictated a need for increasing the income from his work.
Odilon Redon turned to the genre of the floral still-life, first in pastel and subsequently in oils as well, around 1900, when he was sixty years old. In discussing an early naturalistic example of this subject he had painted for Andries Bonger, one of his most loyal collectors, Redon wrote, “I have in my mind’s eye as one of the good things that I have painted, this vase of flowers, which has remained a vision for me... I do not know of anything that has given me more pleasure than such an appreciation of simple flowers in their vase breathing air”.
• Paper thickness: 10.3 mil
• Paper weight: 5.57 oz/y² (189 g/m²)
• Giclée printing quality
• Opacity: 94%
• ISO brightness: 104%
“I have made an art according to myself. I have done it with eyes open to the marvels of the visible world and, whatever anyone might say, always careful to obey the laws of nature and life.”
– Odilon Redon, “Confessions of an Artist”
Having achieved an already considerable reputation as a draughtsman on paper, in his works in black and white—his “noirs”, as the artist called them— but among a limited if dedicated clientele of connoisseurs, Redon sought to expand the market for his art. The burden of outstanding debts following the sale of his family’s estate in Peyrelebade, Gironde, dictated a need for increasing the income from his work.
Odilon Redon turned to the genre of the floral still-life, first in pastel and subsequently in oils as well, around 1900, when he was sixty years old. In discussing an early naturalistic example of this subject he had painted for Andries Bonger, one of his most loyal collectors, Redon wrote, “I have in my mind’s eye as one of the good things that I have painted, this vase of flowers, which has remained a vision for me... I do not know of anything that has given me more pleasure than such an appreciation of simple flowers in their vase breathing air”.
• Paper thickness: 10.3 mil
• Paper weight: 5.57 oz/y² (189 g/m²)
• Giclée printing quality
• Opacity: 94%
• ISO brightness: 104%