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Child and Seeing Hands by Hans Bellmer — VisualArtsDB

Child and Seeing Hands

Child and Seeing Hands

1950

Medium: Pen and brown ink with gouache and watercolor on paper
Dimensions: 23.8 × 28.5 cm (9 3/8 × 11 1/4 in.)
Genre: pen and ink drawings
Museum: Art Institute of Chicago

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drawings (visual works)paintinkpen and ink drawingsgouacheprints and drawingwatercolorSurrealismcoating (material)paper (fiber product)water-base paint

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