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Sleeping Woman by Balthus — VisualArtsDB

Sleeping Woman

Sleeping Woman

1955

Medium: Graphite, with black Conté crayon and watercolor, on cream wove paper
Dimensions: 43.3 × 54.6 cm (17 1/16 × 21 1/2 in.)
Genre: graphite
Museum: Art Institute of Chicago

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drawings (visual works)graphiteprints and drawingcrayonspaper (fiber product)

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