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Painting of many small butterflies in pastel blue, yellow, pink and green drifting over a rust-red background with soft brown blotches.

Evocation of Butterflies

Scattered butterflies in pale blues, yellows, pinks and greens float across a warm rust-red ground that fades into brown at the edges. Their wings are softly blurred and loosely brushed, while a few insects are barely sketched near the lower left, giving the painting a dreamlike, atmospheric quality.

Artist
Odilon Redon
Date
1910
Medium
Source
Wikimedia Commons / Wikidata
Size
1658 × 2000 px
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Public domain · Odilon Redon died 1916 and the work dates by 1910; public domain in the US and life+70 countries.
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier B · as stated by the source: Public domain

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Odilon Redon, via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)

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