↗France, late 19th century-early 20th century · c. 1915–26
Water Lilies (Agapanthus)
Claude Monet
Dudley P. Allen Fund · The Cleveland Museum of Art
Image licence: CC0 · Museum record & image source ↗
France, 19th century · 1893
The Wing
- Date
- 1893
- Medium
- lithograph
- Dimensions
- Image: 31.9 x 24.5 cm (12 9/16 x 9 5/8 in.)
- Country / context
- France
- Movement / tradition
- European and American art
- Collection
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Attribution / role
- Museum attribution
- Pathway
- European and American art ↗
ABOUT THIS WORK
The Wing is a representative work in our Odilon Redon guide. The catalogue records lithograph. Museum attribution. The linked artist guide places it alongside other works from the artist’s career.
Original educational overview · based on the linked museum recordPlace in the artist’s career
Compare the 1868 graphite landscape, the 1893 lithograph and the 1916 floral pastel. Dark marks can create an imaginative space through tone alone; dry coloured pastel gives a different intensity and texture. Track how a recognisable motif becomes suggestive through cropping, scale and its surrounding atmosphere.
The artist’s practice
Artist-wide context; individual works may differ.
Media and surface
Graphite and lithographic darks coexist with later dry, luminous pastel colour.
Marks and structure
Isolated forms, unusual scale and suggestive outlines move familiar motifs toward imagined worlds.
Palette and light
Dark tonal visions and saturated floral passages are complementary strands rather than a simple emotional reversal.
A MOMENT TO LOOK
Start with what you can see: shapes, surface, colour and scale. How might the listed materials affect the way this object was made and experienced?
Looking prompt · an invitation to observe, not a historical interpretation.
