Parfois on trouve un vieux flacon qui se souvient, d’ou jaillit toute vive une ame qui revient 1890

"Parfois on trouve un vieux flacon qui se souvient, d’ou jaillit toute vive une ame qui revient" (Sometimes one finds an old bottle that remembers, from which a soul comes back to life) is a lithograph by Odilon Redon created in 1890. The artwork depicts a figure, likely a woman, emerging from a dark void, suggestive of a bottle or flask, with a swirling, ghostly apparition around her, hinting at the soul's return. The lines are delicate and hazy, adding to the ethereal nature of the image, characteristics of Redon's "black" period where he explored themes of dreams, the subconscious, and the spectral. This piece speaks to Redon's fascination with the interplay between the tangible and the intangible, exploring the notion of memory and the return of the soul.