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Tower of Babel - The Shadow by Agnes Denes — VisualArtsDB

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Tower of Babel - The Shadow

Tower of Babel - The Shadow

Tower of Babel - The Shadow

1983

Medium: Graphite on blue wove paper
Dimensions: 92.7 × 69.9 cm (36 1/2 × 27 9/16 in.)
Genre: Drawings
Museum: Art Institute of Chicago

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