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The Butterfly, from Histoire naturelle by Pablo Picasso — VisualArtsDB

The Butterfly, from Histoire naturelle

The Butterfly, from Histoire naturelle

1936

Medium: Aquatint, sugar lift etching, scraping, and drypoint on ivory laid paper
Dimensions: Image: 27 × 21 cm (10 11/16 × 8 5/16 in.); Sheet: 36 × 28.5 cm (14 3/16 × 11 1/4 in.)
Genre: aquatint
Museum: Art Institute of Chicago

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