# Flower Clouds, in Odilon Redon

Odilon Redon painted this in about 1903, aged about 58. It is now at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Our note:

> Two figures drift in a small sailboat beneath clouds that bloom into brilliant, flower-like colour, a scene that seems to belong to dream rather than to any real voyage.

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## The work

- Date: c. 1903
- Medium: Pastel, with touches of stumping, incising, and brushwork, on blue-gray wove paper with multi-colored fibers altered to tan, perimeter mounted to cardboard
- Dimensions: 44.5 × 54.2 cm (17 9/16 × 21 3/8 in.)
- Type: Drawing and Watercolor
- Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1990.165
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Odilon Redon](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/odilon-redon), French, 1840–1916

Redon spent three decades working almost entirely in black: charcoal drawings he called his “noirs” and albums of lithographs peopled with floating eyes, strange plants and dreamlike heads, which made him a hero of the Symbolist writers.

7 works in the collection.

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