Artists

Odilon Redon — the prince of dreams, from black to color

A giant eye floats up into the sky like a hot-air balloon, carrying a severed head beneath it. A spider with a human face grins from ear to ear. A marsh flower holds a sad human face at the end of its stem. For twenty years Odilon Redon worked only in black, in charcoal and...

Masterpieces

Woman with a Parasol — Camille Monet in the wind

Seen from below, a woman in white stands against a blue sky streaked with cloud. She tilts a green parasol back over her shoulder; a veil drifts across a face we can barely make out. Her skirt billows, the grass bends at her feet. A little lower down, half hidden by the slope, a small...

Masterpieces

Van Gogh’s Irises — a garden in the first days at the asylum

A wave of blue flowers surges across the full width of the canvas. Long leaves, sharp as blades, cross and tangle; petals twist, unfurl, droop. Along the top, a bed of orange blooms; along the bottom, the red earth of the garden. And on the left, alone among the crowd of blue, a single white...