Redon owned a variety of vases, which his wife, Camille, used in arranging the bouquets that formed the subject of his late still-life paintings. The delicately patterned white vessel depicted in this work appears in several other pictures, including The Met’s Vase of Flowers (Pink Background) of about 1906 (59.16.3).
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Credit Line:The Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ittleson Jr. Purchase Fund, 1964
Accession Number:64.266
Inscription: Signed (lower left): ODILON REDON
[Galerie Tanner, Zurich]; Mrs. E. Reichenbach, London (by 1959–at least 1961; sold to Lefevre); [Alex Reid & Levefre, London, 1962; sold to Salz]; [Sam Salz , New York, 1962–64; sold to The Met]
Venice. Biennale. "XIIa esposizione internazionale d'arte della città di Venezia," April 15–October 31, 1920, no. 51 (as "Vaso di fiori").
London. Matthiesen Gallery. "Odilon Redon, 1840–1916," May–June 1959, no. 75 (as "Vase de fleurs," lent by a private collection, England).
London. Roland, Browse and Delbanco. "Flowers," April–May 1961, no. 1 (as "Summer Flowers in a Vase") [see Ref. Sterling and Salinger 1967].
London. Lefevre Fine Art Ltd. "XIX and XX century French Paintings, Drawings, and Bronzes," February–March 1962, no. 13 [see Ref. Sterling and Salinger 1967].
Winnipeg Art Gallery. "1912: Break up of Tradition/Traditions et ruptures," August 7–October 4, 1987, unnumbered cat. (as "Bouquet in a Chinese Vase/Bouquet dans un vase chinois").
Yokohama Museum of Art. "Treasures from The Metropolitan Museum of Art: French Art from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century," March 25–June 4, 1989, no. 95.
Humlebaek. Louisiana Museum of Modern Art. "The Flower as Image," September 10, 2004–January 16, 2005, no. 105.
Fondation Beyeler. "Flower Myth: Vincent van Gogh to Jeff Koons," February 27–May 22, 2005, no. 138.
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum. "Earth, Sea, and Sky: Nature in Western Art—Masterpieces from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," October 6, 2012–January 4, 2013, no. 74.
Beijing. National Museum of China. "Earth, Sea, and Sky: Nature in Western Art—Masterpieces from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," February 8–May 9, 2013, no. 74.
Francesco Sapori. La dodicesima esposizione d'arti a Venezia—1920. Bergamo, 1920, p. 51.
Anita Brookner. "Current and Forthcoming Exhibitions: London." Burlington Magazine 104 (March 1962), p. 130, fig. 35.
XIX and XX Century French Paintings, Drawings, and Bronzes. Exh. cat., Lefevre Fine Art Ltd. London, 1962, pp. 2, 17, no. 13 [see Ref. Sterling and Salinger 1967], dates it about 1906; erroneously labels it as no. 12.
Charles Sterling and Margaretta M. Salinger. French Paintings: A Catalogue of the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Vol. 3, XIX–XX Centuries. New York, 1967, p. 13, ill., date it about 1912–14; mention that this bouquet is treated with greater definition than the one in "Flowers in a Chinese Vase" (MMA 59.16.3) and note that the vase in the two paintings appears to be the same, but seen here from the other side.
Louise d'Argencourt. 1912: Break up of Tradition/Traditions et ruptures. Exh. cat., Winnipeg Art Gallery. Winnipeg, 1987, pp. 188–89, ill., dates it about 1912–14.
Denys Sutton inTreasures from The Metropolitan Museum of Art: French Art from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century. Exh. cat., Yokohama Museum of Art. [Tokyo], 1989, p. 25.
Susan Alyson Stein inTreasures from The Metropolitan Museum of Art: French Art from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century. Exh. cat., Yokohama Museum of Art. [Tokyo], 1989, pp. 150, no. 95, ill. (color).
Katharine Baetjer. European Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art by Artists Born Before 1865: A Summary Catalogue. New York, 1995, p. 471, ill.
Alec Wildenstein. Odilon Redon: Catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre peint et dessiné. Vol. 3, Fleurs et paysages. Paris, 1996, pp. 8–9 (overleaf), pp. 108–9, no. 1518, ill. (color and black and white), identifies the same vase in seven other floral still lifes.
Susan Alyson Stein inEarth, Sea, and Sky: Nature in Western Art; Masterpieces from The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Exh. cat., Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum. [Tokyo], 2012, pp. 129, 238, no. 74, ill. (color and b&w) [Chinese ed., Hefei Shi, 2013, pp. 162–63, no. 74, ill. (color)].
The vase depicted is believed to be the same one that appears in Flowers in a Chinese Vase (The Met 59.16.3; Wildenstein 1520), but from the other side. Klaus Berger (1965) has catalogued it as "vase 7".
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