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Death: "My Irony Surpasses All Others" by Odilon Redon — VisualArtsDB

Death: "My Irony Surpasses All Others"

Death: "My Irony Surpasses All Others"

1888

Medium: Transfer lithograph in black ink on thin ivory wove paper, laid down on heavyweight ivory wove plate paper (chine collé)
Dimensions: Image: 26.1 × 19.7 cm (10 5/16 × 7 13/16 in.); Sheet: 34.7 × 45.2 cm (13 11/16 × 17 13/16 in.)
Genre: lithograph
Museum: Art Institute of Chicago

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