Landscape
Odilon Redon
French, 1840–1916
after 1900
An oil landscape in which Redon pares down detail to conjure a quiet, poetic mood—using simplified tree forms and a muted palette to evoke an inner vision rather than a literal scene.
You’re struck by a soft, misty hush of pale greens, mauves, and creams through which slender, vertical trunks rise like quiet notes, the space flattened and gently luminous as if seen in twilight fog.
From his late, color-focused phase, this restrained picture marks Redon’s move away from the dark symbolist prints toward lyrical, almost abstract uses of tone and color that helped steer modern art toward mood and inner experience over strict representation.
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
15 1/4 x 21 7/8" (38.7 x 55.6 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Gift of The Ian Woodner Family Collection
Accession
231.2000
Palette
Exhibitions
