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Suggestion by Odilon Redon — VisualArtsDB

Suggestion

Suggestion

1880–1890

Medium: Various charcoals and black pastel (a later reworking), with touches of black Conté crayon, incising, stumping, wiping, erasing, and subtractive brushwork, on pale-pink wove paper with red and blue fibers altered to a golden tone
Dimensions: 52.4 × 36.8 cm (20 11/16 × 14 1/2 in.)
Genre: charcoal
Museum: Art Institute of Chicago

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erasingdrawings (visual works)black chalkchalkConté crayon (TM)prints and drawingpastels (crayons)papercrayonsstumpingdrawing techniquespaper (fiber product)wove paperscrapingcharcoal

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Frontispiece from Emile Verhaeren's Les Debacles

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