If you can manage to attend an exhibit the first day you're way ahead of the game on several counts...
I ran to the new Odilon Redon expo at the Grand Palais the day I was catching the overnight train to Venice...
It's usually not so crowded the first day - people are waiting for the reviews...
The entry floor was full of Redon's dark, moody etchings and chalk drawings... 
But downstairs was fullon technicolor Redon.
Full of his mysterious fleurs et tetes/heads...
Redon's mastery of pastel is right up there with Degas... 
One of my favorite Redons - this seashell. It's always a shock to see a painting in the flesh when you've seen too many reproductions...
There were sheets and sheets of floral drawings... 
And this floral embroidered chair...
Redon's bouquets are delicieux..
When you leave a Redon exhibit, you're in a semi-trance like state...
You see Redon fleurs rouges right outside the Grand Palais...
Redon heads along the Champs-Elysees...
Doesn't this barquette of fig, apricot, tomate cerise look like edible flowers to you too? 
I went home and set up my own 'Redon' - yet to be painted.Perhaps today?
BONJOUR REDON!
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