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The Egg by Odilon Redon — VisualArtsDB

The Egg

The Egg

1885

Medium: Lithograph in black on ivory China paper laid down on ivory wove paper
Dimensions: Image: 28.9 × 22.4 cm (11 7/16 × 8 7/8 in.); Sheet: 43.8 × 31.4 cm (17 1/4 × 12 3/8 in.)
Genre: lithograph
Museum: Art Institute of Chicago

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