Odilon Redon's Vase of Flowers (Pink Background), painted around 1906, belongs to the floral still lifes he took up increasingly in his later career, applying the same instinct for saturated, non-naturalistic color he had developed in his symbolist figure subjects to an ostensibly simpler genre. The flowers are less described than suggested, their forms dissolving into color relationships rather than botanical accuracy, a technique that anticipates aspects of early twentieth-century color-driven abstraction. Oil on canvas, the picture entered the collection through the bequest of Mabel Choate, given in memory of her father Joseph Hodges Choate, in 1958. Scion regards Redon's late floral work as a useful case study in how a documented shift in subject matter, properly recorded, need not diminish a picture's standing relative to an artist's earlier signature themes.