Odilon Redon
Vase of Flowers (Pink Background)
c. 190672.7 x 54 cm
Oil on canvas
Signed, lower left and at base of vase: ODILON REDON
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Bequest of Mabel Choate, in memory of her father, Joseph Hodges Choate, 1958
Literature
Collection catalogues
introduction by Gary Tinterow, Masterpieces of European Painting, 1800-1920, in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; New Haven, 2007, nr. 137
Provenance
the artist, Paris, c. 1906–died 1916, placed on consignment with Carroll Galleries by 1915
his widow, Camille Redon, Paris, 1916–17, remained on consignment with Carroll Galleries
sold through Carroll Galleries, New York in February 1917, to Quinn
John Quinn, New York, 1917–died 1924
his estate, 1924–26
Mrs. Joshua Montgomery Sears (née Sarah Carlisle Choate), Boston, 1926–died 1935
her cousin, Mabel Choate, Boston, by 1944–died 1958
Other works by Odilon Redon
Pandora
c. 1914
c. 1914
Pandora
1910/12
1910/12
Evocation of Roussel
c. 1912
c. 1912
Vase of Flowers
1896
1896
St. Sebastian
1910/12
1910/12