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Butterfly. Costume design for Scene IV of the ballet Aleko by Marc Chagall — VisualArtsDB

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Butterfly. Costume design for Scene IV of the ballet Aleko

1942

Medium: Gouache and pencil on transparentized paper
Dimensions: 15 x 10 3/8" (38.1 x 26.4 cm)
Genre: Drawings
Museum: Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York City, NY, US

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