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Mephisto by Odilon Redon — VisualArtsDB

Mephisto

Mephisto

1860–1916

Medium: Charcoal with touches of black chalk, stumping, scraping and erasing, on discolored yellowish-tan wove paper, ruled in graphite
Dimensions: 37.8 × 35.6 cm (14 15/16 × 14 1/16 in.)
Genre: charcoal
Museum: Art Institute of Chicago

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erasingdrawings (visual works)black chalkchalkgraphiteprints and drawingpaperstumpingdrawing techniquespaper (fiber product)wove paperscrapingcharcoal

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