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Seated Nude by Frank Auerbach — VisualArtsDB

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Seated Nude

Seated Nude

Seated Nude

1961

Medium: Charcoal and pastel, with stumping, erasing and scraping, on white wove paper
Dimensions: 78 × 57.3 cm (30 3/4 × 22 9/16 in.)
Genre: Charcoal
Museum: Art Institute of Chicago

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erasingdrawings (visual works)plant materialprints and drawingpastels (crayons)crayonsstumpingdrawing techniquespaper (fiber product)scrapingcharcoal

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