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The Cruel Monument by Leon Golub — VisualArtsDB

The Cruel Monument

The Cruel Monument

1940–1943

Medium: Red pastel with stumping on cream wove paper
Dimensions: 75.5 × 101 cm (29 3/4 × 39 13/16 in.)
Genre: pastel
Museum: Art Institute of Chicago

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drawings (visual works)prints and drawingpastelpastels (crayons)crayonsstumpingdrawing techniquespaper (fiber product)

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