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 exhibition-poster edition shows the whole work beneath original typography set in-house. 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 16×24 in a dark wood frame.
Style, size & framing detail
- Style
- Exhibition poster of a Symbolism painting
- Era
- 20th century (1910)
- Orientation
- Portrait
- Palette
- cream & beige
- Mood
- intimate
- Rooms
- living room, bedroom, study or library, dining room, dorm room
- Good gift for
- housewarming, art lovers
Size. We'd hang this one at 16×24. Prints at 12×18, 16×24, 24×36 in — 12×18 for a shelf, desk or a gallery-wall grid; 16×24 above a desk, console or in a hallway; 24×36 as the statement piece above a sofa or bed.
Framing. Exhibition posters sit best in a slim black frame with no mat — the typeset margin is the mat.
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
A fine-art print
The same artwork as a clean fine-art print — the image shown large with a minimal caption.
