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Human Plant by Odilon Redon — VisualArtsDB

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Human Plant

Human Plant

1870–1916

Medium: Charcoal with black pastel, stumping, scraping and erasing, on ivory wove paper, now discolored.
Dimensions: 47.3 × 34.2 cm (18 5/8 × 13 1/2 in.)
Genre: Charcoal
Museum: Art Institute of Chicago

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erasingdrawings (visual works)black chalkchalkprints and drawingpastels (crayons)paperstumpingdrawing techniquespaper (fiber product)wove paperscrapingcharcoal

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It Was a Hand, Seemingly as Much of Flesh and Blood as My Own, plate 4 of 6

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