Parfois on trouve un vieux flacon qui se souvient, d’ou jaillit toute vive une ame qui revient (1890)

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Odilon Redon's mesmerizing drawing, "Sometimes one finds an old flask that remembers, whence bursts forth all lively a soul that returns," captures the ethereal and enigmatic quality that characterizes much of his work. In this piece, Redon employs his signature style of soft, fluid lines to depict a haunting scene emerging from an antique vessel.The work features a ghostly figure, spiraling upwards as if being released or reborn from the confines of its dark, stout container. The curves and swirls surrounding the figure suggest movement and transformation, evoking a sense of delicate emergence into being. The figure itself, rendered with a light touch, appears almost weightless, enhancing the metaphysical and ephemeral theme of the artwork.Redon’s fascination with the idea of the unseen and the spiritual is beautifully embodied in this drawing, where the viewer is invited to ponder the mysterious life of objects and the histories they hold. This image not only serves as a visual delight but also stimulates contemplation on memory, rebirth, and the transcendental.

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Odilon Redon was a French symbolist painter, printmaker, draughtsman and pastellist. Early in his career, both before and after fighting in the Franco-Prussian War, he worked almost exclusively in charcoal and lithography, works referred to as noirs. 

During the 1890s he began working in pastel and oils, which quickly became his favourite medium, abandoning his previous style of noirs completely after 1900. He also developed a keen interest in Hindu and Budhist religion and culture, which increasingly showed in his work.

He is perhaps best known today for the "dreamlike" paintings created in the first decade of the 20th century, which were heavily inspired by Japanese art and which, while continuing to take inspiration from nature, heavily flirted with abstraction. His work is considered a precursor to both Dadaism and Surrealism.