Drawing and Watercolor
Flower Clouds
Odilon Redon French, 1840-1916. c. 1903. Pastel, with touches of stumping, incising, and brushwork, on blue-gray wove paper with multi-colored fibers altered to tan, perimeter mounted to cardboard. Explore the catalogue record, image rights and documented connections from The Art Institute of Chicago.
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Pastel, with touches of stumping, incising, and brushwork, on blue-gray wove paper with multi-colored fibers altered to tan, perimeter mounted to cardboard; pastels (crayons); wove paper; paper (fiber product)
Catalogue: The Art Institute of Chicago. Automated source-field normalization; no independent visual interpretation.
Source normalization checked 2026-10-21 · 2026-10-20.1
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