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The Pool of Tears by Vera Berdich — VisualArtsDB

The Pool of Tears

The Pool of Tears

1962

Medium: Photo-etching, aquatint, mezzotint, roulette, and drypoint, with scraping and burnishing, in blue-black on white wove paper
Dimensions: Image/plate: 30.4 × 47.4 cm (12 × 18 11/16 in.); Sheet: 44.3 × 60.4 cm (17 1/2 × 23 13/16 in.)
Genre: photoetching
Museum: Art Institute of Chicago

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photoetchingprintprints and drawingpaper (fiber product)

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