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Odilon Redon " Wildflowers in a Long Neck Vase" This Artwork is: NEW CUSTOM FRAMED In a top quality Bamboo-Patterned gold WOOD Frame DOUBLE MATTED in Gold & White Art Print Framed Size: 15.5" x 15.5" Image Size: 8.5" x 8.5" Comes complete with installed ready to hang hardware Interested in different framing? Please Contact us! THE FRAMING ALONE IS WORTH OVER $125! Redon is one of the most important and original of all the Symbolist artists. His visionary works concern the world of dreams, fantasy, and the imagination. He first became famous for his noirs series, monochromatic compositions that exploit the expressive and suggestive powers of the color black. His lithographs, which often reworked earlier drawings, became a means to broaden his audience, as well as to explore in series specific themes or literary texts - he was particularly drawn to the Romantic and Symbolist works of Poe , Flaubert , and Mallarmé . Later, Redon began to slowly adopt a more colorful palette, so that his pastels and oil paintings are riotous with color, consisting largely of portraits and floral still lifes. His encounter with the Nabis introduced him to a more decorative aesthetic, and his late works incorporate Japonism as well as an attention to flat, abstract patterns, and decorative ensembles. Redon would have an enormous impact on the art of his contemporaries, such as Paul Gauguin , as well as later modern artists like Marcel Duchamp . His lithographs and noirs in particular were admired by the Symbolist writers of the day but also by later Surrealists for their often bizarre and fantastical subjects, many of which combine scientific observation and visionary imagination.