Violette Heyman

Movement: Symbolism

Artwork: Violette Heymann (#details and whole)

Genre: Self-Portrait & Portraits

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Artist: Odilon Redon; (French, 1840-1916)

About: France, early 20th Century

Medium and Support: #Pastel on #gray #wove #paper

Dimensions: Unframed: 72 x 92 cm (28 3/8 x 36 1/4 in.)

Framed: 80 x 100 cm ✍️(#sourceourcollectionofbooks)

Hinman B. Hurlbut Collection 1926.1976

Location: Cleveland Museum, United State

Source:

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DID YOU KNOW?

This pastel was acquired by the Cleveland Museum of Art in the same year as several other works by Redon, leading arts writers to describe Cleveland as holding the most important works by the artist outside of Paris at the time.

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DESCRIPTION

Although he was known early in his career for works primarily in black and white, such as charcoal drawings and lithographs, Odilon Redon turned to more colorful media, including pastel, later on. In particular, he focused on commissioned pastel portraits of women with flowers, such as this one. Here, the young niece of the Parisian collector Marcel Kapferer appears alongside colorful blossoms as she looks forward, focused as if in the dreamlike state evoked by her surroundings.

Source photographs and text: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1926.1976