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Sketchbook: Childhood and Wartime Sketches by Otto Piene — VisualArtsDB

Sketchbook: Childhood and Wartime Sketches

Sketchbook: Childhood and Wartime Sketches

1938–1944

Medium: Mixed media
Dimensions: 15.5 × 21.5 × 1 cm (6 1/8 × 8 7/16 × 3/8 in.)
Genre: Drawings
Museum: Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA, US

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