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Odilon Redon Prince du Reve 1840 - 1916
If you can manage to attend an exhibit the first day you're way ahead of the game on several counts...
I ran to the new
Odilon Redon
expo at the
Grand Palais
the day I was catching the overnight train to Venice...
It's usually not so crowded the first day - people are waiting for the reviews...
The entry floor was full of Redon's dark, moody etchings and chalk drawings...
But downstairs was fullon technicolor
Redon
.
Full of his mysterious
fleurs et tetes
/heads...
Redon's mastery of pastel is right up there with
Degas
...
One of my favorite Redons - this seashell. It's always a shock to see a painting in the flesh when you've seen too many reproductions...
There were sheets and sheets of floral drawings...
And this floral embroidered chair...
Redon's bouquets are
delicieux
..
When you leave a
Redon
exhibit, you're in a semi-trance like state...
You see
Redon fleurs rouges
right outside the
Grand Palais
...
Redon
heads along the
Champs-Elysees
...
Doesn't this
barquette
of fig, apricot,
tomate cerise
look like edible flowers to you too?
I went home and set up my own '
Redon
' - yet to be painted.
Perhaps today?
BONJOUR REDON!
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