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Petroleum (Oil!) by John Heartfield — VisualArtsDB

Petroleum (Oil!)

Petroleum (Oil!)

John Heartfield

1927

Medium: Letterpress and lithograph
Dimensions: 18.9 × 13 cm (7 1/2 × 5 1/8 in.)
Genre: book
Museum: Art Institute of Chicago

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