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Fantastic Sea Creature by Alfonso Ossorio — VisualArtsDB

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Fantastic Sea Creature

Fantastic Sea Creature

Fantastic Sea Creature

Alfonso Ossorio

1939

Medium: Black ink on faded brown Japanese paper
Dimensions: actual: 31.6 x 41 cm (12 7/16 x 16 1/8 in.)
Genre: Drawings
Museum: Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA, US

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Slight scribble of indeterminate purpose in black ink on verso.

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