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Primitive Man by Odilon Redon — VisualArtsDB

Primitive Man

Primitive Man

1872

Medium: Various charcoals, with touches of black chalk, stumping, wiping and erasing, heightened with touches of white and ocher gouache, on cream wove paper altered to a pale, golden tone
Dimensions: 39.3 × 33.8 cm (15 1/2 × 13 5/16 in.)
Genre: charcoal
Museum: Art Institute of Chicago

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drawings (visual works)black chalkgouacheprints and drawingpapercrayonspaper (fiber product)wove papercharcoal

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