Strange Flower (Little Sister of the Poor)
Odilon Redon · 1880 · Various charcoals, with touches of black chalk and black Conté crayon, stumping, incising and erasing, on yellowish cream wove paper altered to a golden tone
Public domain
Marked public domain (CC0) by the Art Institute of Chicago.
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About this picture
Strange Flower (Little Sister of the Poor) is a public-domain drawing by Odilon Redon, dated 1880. Various charcoals, with touches of black chalk and black Conté crayon, stumping, incising and erasing, on yellowish cream wove paper altered to a golden tone. The file comes from Art Institute of Chicago.
“Strange Flower (Little Sister of the Poor)” (1880) sits between something Redon had looked at and something he invented, whether it is one of the charcoal noirs or a later pastel.
About the artist
Odilon Redon (1840–1916) was a French artist of charcoal “noirs” and, later, glowing pastels of flowers, boats, and dream figures. The pictures sit between observed nature and something invented.
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