In the center of this painting is a blue vase filled with a variety of flowers in different sizes and colors. The flowers are in shades of orange, pink, yellow, and blue, with green leaves surrounding the blossoms. Some of the flowers are large and round, while others are smaller and shaped like trumpets or teardrops. At the center of the blue vase is a section of pink with some red lines. A few blue petals fall from the flowers into the air. The background behind the vase is mostly gray, although it contains mottled patches of pink, yellow, teal, and light green.

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Large Vase with Flowers

painter Odilon Redon (French, 1840 - 1916)

c. 1912

Medium: oil on canvas
Classification: Painting
Dimensions: overall: 73 x 54.6 cm (28 3/4 x 21 1/2 in.) ; framed: 98.7 x 79.7 x 6.9 cm (38 7/8 x 31 3/8 x 2 11/16 in.)
Culture: French
Museum: National Gallery of Art, CF
Credit line: Gift of the Honorable John C. Whitehead, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art
Rights: Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it: Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed

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