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The Thief Greater than his Loot by Frederick Sommer — VisualArtsDB

The Thief Greater than his Loot

The Thief Greater than his Loot

Frederick Sommer

1955

Medium: Gelatin silver print
Dimensions: Image/paper: 20.3 × 12.6 cm (8 × 5 in.); Mount: 35.6 × 27.9 cm (14 1/16 × 11 in.)
Genre: gelatin silver (developing-out-paper) pr
Museum: Art Institute of Chicago

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