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Although he was known early in his career for works primarily in black and white, such as charcoal drawings and lithographs, Odilon Redon turned to more colorful media, including pastel, later on. In particular, he focused on commissioned pastel portraits of women with flowers, such as this one. Here, the young niece of the Parisian collector Marcel Kapferer appears alongside colorful blossoms as she looks forward, focused as if in the dreamlike state evoked by her surroundings.
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148753
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Violette Heymann
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148753
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drawing
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Violette Heymann
description
Although he was known early in his career for works primarily in black and white, such as charcoal drawings and lithographs, Odilon Redon turned to more colorful media, including pastel, later on. In particular, he focused on commissioned pastel portraits of women with flowers, such as this one. Here, the young niece of the Parisian collector Marcel Kapferer appears alongside colorful blossoms as she looks forward, focused as if in the dreamlike state evoked by her surroundings.
date
1910
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CC0
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CC0
language
en
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Q117066460
creators
1748
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Drawing
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1
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Unframed: 72 x 92 cm (28 3/8 x 36 1/4 in.)
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France, early 20th Century
accession
1926.1976
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pastel on gray wove paper
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Violette Heymann, 1910. Odilon Redon (French, 1840–1916). Pastel on gray wove paper; unframed: 72 x 92 cm (28 3/8 x 36 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Hinman B. Hurlbut Collection, 1926.1976
collection
DR - French
formerAccessionNumbers
1886.1926
1976.1926
didYouKnow
This pastel was acquired by the Cleveland Museum of Art in the same year as several other works by Redon, leading arts writers to describe Cleveland as holding the most important works by the artist outside of Paris at the time.
citations
citation
<em>Exposition Annuelle, 1er Groupe</em>. Exh. Cat. Paris: Galerie E. Druet, 1910.
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Mentioned: no. 27
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Salmon, André. "Odilon Redon." <em>L'Art décoratif</em> 15, no. 1 (1913): 5-21.
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Reproduced: p. 19
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<em>Exposition rétrospective d'oeuvres d'Odilon Redon (1840-1916)</em>. Exh. Cat. Paris: Galerie Barbazanges, 1920.
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Mentioned: no. 124
citation
Mellerio, André. "Odilon Redon (1840-1916)." <em>Gazette des Beaux-Arts</em> 62 (1920): 137-156.
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Mentioned: p. 152
citation
Rey, Robert. "Odilon Redon." <em>Art et Decoration</em> 38, no. 224 (1920): 36-45.
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Reproduced: p. 43
citation
Mellerio, André. <em>Odilon Redon: peintre, dessinateur et graveur</em>. Paris: H. Floury, 1923.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 136; Reproduced: opposite p. 88
citation
Furst, Herbert. "Paintings and Pastels by Odilon Redon at the Léfèvre Galleries, King Street." <em>Apollo</em> 4, no. 19 (July 1926): 46.
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Mentioned: p. 46
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<em>Odilon Redon, exposition rétrospective de son oeuvre</em>. Exh. Cat. Paris: Musée des arts décoratifs, 1926.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 17, no. 137
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Karr, Benjamin. "Notable Painting Added to Art Museum's Display." <em>Cleveland News</em> (December 19, 1926): n.p.
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Mentioned and reproduced.
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Glasier, Jessie C. "Museum Gets Another French Canvas." <em>Cleveland Plain Dealer</em> (December 19, 1926): n.p.
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Mentioned.
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<em>Paintings and Pastels by Odilon Redon</em>. Exh. Cat. London: Lefèvre Galleries, 1926.
page_number
Mentioned: no. 13
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"Cleveland Museum Buys a Redon." <em>The Art News</em> (January 1, 1927): 1-2.
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Mentioned: pp. 1-2
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W.M.M. "'Portrait of Mademoiselle Violette H.' by Odilon Redon." <em>Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art </em>14, no. 3 (March 1927): 41, 47.
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Mentioned: p. 41; Reproduced p. 47
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1928.
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Reproduced: p. 39
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Dorival, Bernard. <em>La Peinture française. </em>Paris: Larousse, 1942.
page_number
Reproduced: opposite p. 105
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Jewell, Edward Alden and Aimée Crane. <em>French Impressionists and their Contemporaries Represented in American Collections</em>. New York: Hyperion Press, 1944.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 129
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<em>Paintings in the Cleveland Museum of Art.</em> Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1945.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 39
citation
Bazin, Germain. <em>History of Modern Painting</em>. Trans. Rosamund Frost (New York: Hyperion Press, 1951.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 77
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Hartlaub, G.F. <em>Impressionists in France</em>. Milan: Uffici Press, 1951.
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Reproduced: p. 35
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<em>Odilon Redon, 1840-1916</em>. Exh. Cat. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1951.
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Mentioned and reproduced: no. 16
citation
Seligman, Germain. <em>Oh! Fickle Taste: Objectivity in Art</em>. New York: B. Wheelwright, 1952.
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Reproduced: p. 51
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Berger, Klaus. "The Pastels of Odilon Redon." <em>College Art Journal</em> 16, no. 1 (Autumn 1956): 23-33.
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Mentioned: p. 28
citation
Rewald, John. <em>Post-Impressionism from Van Gogh to Gauguin</em>. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1956.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 179
citation
Colombo, Alfredo and Gaston Diehl. <em>Treasury of World Painting</em>. New York: Tudor, 1960.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 65
citation
Awazu, Norio. "Redon's Letters: Letters to Redon (IV)." <em>Mizue</em>, no. 721 (March 1965): 73-77.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 76
citation
Berger, Klaus. <em>Odilon Redon: Fantasy and Colour</em>. Trans. Michael Bullock. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1965.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 212, no. 406
citation
The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 180
citation
<em>I Maestri del Colore: Redon</em>. Milan: Fratelli Fabbri, 1966.
page_number
Mentioned and reproduced: no. VI-VII
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 180
citation
Selz, Jean. <em>Odilon Redon</em>. Lugano: Uffici Press, 1971.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 81
citation
<em>Praeger Encyclopedia of Art</em>. London: Praeger, 1971.
page_number
Mentioned: vol. 4, p. 1667; Reproduced: vol. 4, p. 1666
citation
Preston, Stuart. <em>Edouard Vuillard. </em>New York: Harry Abrams, 1971.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 23
citation
Cassou, Jean. <em>Odilon Redon</em>. Milan: Fratelli Fabbri, 1972.
page_number
Reproduced: pp. 16-17.
citation
<em>Die Grosse Enzyklopadie der Malerei</em>. Freiburg: Herder, 1975.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 2648
citation
Hobbs, Richard. <em>Odilon Redon</em>. London: Studio Vista, 1977.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 139; Reproduced: p. 141
citation
The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 224
citation
<em>Phaidon Encyclopedia of Art and Artists</em>. Oxford: Phaidon, 1978.
page_number
Mentioned and reproduced: p. 544
citation
Wilson, Michael. <em>Nature and Imagination: The Work of Odilon Redon</em>. Oxford: Phaidon, 1978.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 66; Reproduced: p. 67
citation
Bacou, Roseline. <em>Odilon Redon: Pastels</em>. Trans. Beatrice Rehl. New York: George Braziller, 1987.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 126, no. 43; Reproduced: p. 127
citation
Vialla, Jean. <em>La vie et l'oeuvre d'Odilon Redon</em>. Paris: ACR, 1988.
page_number
Mentioned: pp. 140-141
citation
Fugazza, Stefano. <em>Simbolismo</em>. Milan: Arnoldo Mondadori Arte, 1991.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 104
citation
Wildenstein, Alec. <em>Odilon Redon, catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint et dessiné</em>. Paris: Wildenstein Institute, 1992.
page_number
Mentioned and reproduced: vol. I, p. 50, no. 96
citation
Jarrassé, Dominique. <em>Odilon Redon, le rêve</em>. Paris: Herscher, 1996.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 42; Reproduced: p. 43
citation
<em>Impressionist, Modern and Contemporary Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture and Ceramics</em>. London: Christie's, 1996.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 26, lot 53
citation
Takashina, Shuji and Nobuyuki Senzoku. <em>Seikimatsu to shocho shugi, New World History of Art</em>. Tokyo: Shogakukan, 1996.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 85
citation
Humair, Sylviane. "De la fin du XIXe siècle au début du XXe." <em>Gazette de l'Hotel Drouot</em> (April 17, 1998): 72-74.
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Mentioned: p. 73
citation
<em>300 Selected European Paintings</em>. Otsuka: Otsuka Museum of Art, 1998.
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Mentioned and reproduced: p. 314
citation
<em>Impressionist and Modern Art</em>. London: Sotheby's, 1999.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 17, lot 20
citation
De Grazia, Diane. "Drawings in Cleveland: The Evolution of a Collection." In <em>Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>, 1-15. Diane De Grazia and Carter E. Foster, eds. Exh. Cat. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art in Association with Rizzoli International Publications, New York, 2000.
page_number
Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 11-12, fig. 11
citation
DeGrazia, Diane and Carter E. Foster. <em>Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art.</em> Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art in association with Rizzoli International Publications, New York, 2000.
page_number
Mentioned and Reproduced: P. 11-12, fig. 11
citation
Masini, Lara Vinca and Alessandro Vezzosi. <em>Il Liberty, Art Nouveau. </em>Firenze: Giunti, 2000.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 83
citation
Shimizu, Yoshiro. <em>Redon, Moro</em>. Tokyo: Shogakkan, 2000.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 12
citation
<em>Sugu wakaru gakabetsu genso bijutsu no mikata</em>. Tokyo: Tokyobijutsu, 2004.
page_number
Mentioned and reproduced: p. 57
citation
Lemonedes, Heather, "Unparalleled Color", Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine</em>. Vol. 47 no. 10, December 2007
page_number
Mentioned & reproduced: p. 4
citation
Yamamoto, Atsuko. <em>Redon, His Life and Works: I Want to Know More</em>. Tokyo: Bijutsu, 2011.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 66; Reproduced: p. 67
citation
"Exhibitions.” <em>Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine</em> 55, no. 5 (September/October 2015): 3.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 3
citation
Lemonedes, Heather. “Imaging the Garden: The garden is a ground plot for the mind. --Thomas Hill, <em>The Gardener's Labyrinth</em> (1577).” <em>Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine</em> 55, no. 6 (November/December 2015): 4-6.
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Reproduced: Cover; Mentioned: p. 5.
citation
De Seta, Cesare. <em>Arti Della Modernità</em>. Milano: Jaca Book, 2021.
page_number
Reproduced: P. 194-195
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“The Legacy of Odilon Redon at the CMA.” <em>Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine </em>61, no. 3 (Summer 2021): 37.
page_number
Reproduced and Mentioned: p. 37
citation
Salsbury, Britany. "Collecting 19th-Century French Drawings at the Cleveland Museum of Art." In <em>Nineteenth-Century French Drawings: The Cleveland Museum of Art, </em>11-23. Lewes, UK, Cleveland, Ohio: GILES; Cleveland Museum of Art, 2023.
page_number
Mentioned and reproduced: p. 18-19, fig. 8
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Wildenstein 96
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Hinman B. Hurlbut Collection
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