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Strange Flower (Little Sister of the Poor)

A work made of various charcoals, with touches of black chalk and black conté crayon, stumping, incising and erasing, on yellowish cream wove paper altered to a golden tone.

Strange Flower (Little Sister of the Poor)

Odilon Redon · 1880

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Palette

Sepia
45% of the image
Brown · text contrast 8.4:1

Taupe
19% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.0:1

Tan
15% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.5:1

Sand
11% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.7:1

Fawn
7% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.4:1

Graphite
2% of the image
Grey · text contrast 11.1:1

Colours measured by this site from the museum image (k-means in CIELAB). Names are the nearest in our own list and describe how the colour looks, not the pigment. Text on each chip uses whichever of black or white contrasts more (WCAG ratio shown). How

Details

Artist: Odilon Redon
French, 1840-1916
Date: 1880
Type: Drawing & watercolour
Medium: Various charcoals, with touches of black chalk and black Conté crayon, stumping, incising and erasing, on yellowish cream wove paper altered to a golden tone
Size: 40.4 × 33.2 cm (15 15/16 × 13 1/8 in.)
Place: France
Period: Post-Impressionism · 19th century
Themes: Flowers
Main colour: Brown · lightness 42, colourfulness 17

Art Institute of Chicago, David Adler Collection. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's is_public_domain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-25); image released under CC0. Licence rules