Flower of Marsh

A strange imaginary creature with a human face that bulges round on a thin stem. Redon's unique iconography of living things reveals not only traditional iconography since the Middle Ages, but also the influence of the botanist Armand Clavaud, who he encountered in his youth, and his interest in comparative anatomy. The dark and stagnant swamps are reminiscent of the swamps of the area called "Landes" where Redon spent his childhood in Pale Rubird.