Trees in Bièvres
Odilon Redon
French, 1840–1916
after 1900
An oil-on-canvas landscape by Odilon Redon that turns a small stand of trees in Bièvres into a hushed, poetic study of mood and inner vision rather than literal topography.
You’re struck by the painting’s veil of muted autumnal reds, mauves, and greys and the soft, smudged brushwork that lets trunks and branches dissolve into a luminous, almost dreamlike space.
Painted late in Redon’s career, this tonal, color-focused approach shifted him from print-based symbolism toward a near-abstract, atmospheric language that helped open twentieth-century painting to subjective mood and abstraction.
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
24 1/8 x 19 7/8" (61.3 x 50.5 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Gift of The Ian Woodner Family Collection
Accession
220.2000
Palette
Exhibitions
