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Melancholy by Odilon Redon — VisualArtsDB

Melancholy

Melancholy

1876

Medium: Various charcoals and gouache, with pastel and black chalk, and touches of stumping and erasing, on pale-pink wove paper with red and blue fibers altered to a golden tone, laid down on gray wove paper
Dimensions: 36.8 × 35.7 cm (14 1/2 × 14 1/16 in.)
Genre: pastel
Museum: Art Institute of Chicago

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drawings (visual works)black chalkchalkgouacheprints and drawingpastelpastels (crayons)papercrayonspaper (fiber product)wove paperwater-base paintcharcoal

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