Violette Heymann
1910 · Pastel on gray wove paper · Cleveland Museum of Art
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About this work
- Artist
- Odilon Redon (1840–1916)
- Year
- 1910
- Medium
- Pastel on gray wove paper
- Original size
- 72 × 92 cm
- Collection
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Movement
- Symbolism
A young woman with long auburn hair tied back with a ribbon sits in profile in a green chair, wearing a pale turquoise dress with a high lace collar and gold-trimmed sleeves. To the left, against a soft grey ground, a great cloud of imaginary flowers in violet, cobalt, white, green and coral spills across the sheet. Redon drew the pastel in 1910 as one of his commissioned portraits of women with flowers; the sitter was the niece of the Parisian collector Marcel Kapferer, who owned it until 1926. The Cleveland Museum of Art bought it that year, one of several Redons it acquired at the time.
This full-bleed edition prints the work edge to edge from a high-resolution scan of the original, very slightly cropped (a few percent at most) to fit the sheet. The gallery edition shows the whole work, uncropped. The original is in the public domain.
Where it works
Grey, turquoise and violet with bursts of cobalt make a calm, colourful portrait for a living room, bedroom or study. Hang it with Klimt's Portrait of Emilie Flöge at 24×18 in a dark wood frame.
Style, size & framing detail
- Style
- Symbolism painting
- Era
- 20th century (1910)
- Orientation
- Landscape
- Mood
- intimate
- Rooms
- living room, bedroom, study or library, dining room
- Good gift for
- housewarming, art lovers
Size. We'd hang this one at 24×18. Prints at 16×12, 24×18, 32×24 in — 16×12 for a shelf, desk or a gallery-wall grid; 24×18 above a console or sideboard; 32×24 as the statement piece above a sofa or headboard.
Framing. Printed edge to edge: a slim black or dark wood frame right to the image, or let the canvas wrap do the framing. Also available gallery-wrapped on canvas, ready to hang with no frame.
Pairing. Pairs as a set of three with other famous painting prints (10% off three or more).
Details & materials
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About this design
The Madten promise
An exhibition poster
The same artwork as a gallery exhibition poster — title, artist & date typeset beneath the image on a soft ground.
A fine-art print
The same artwork as a clean fine-art print — the image shown large with a minimal caption.
