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Odilon Redon

The Sphinx

1883
Various charcoals, with touches of black chalk, stumping, wiping, and erasing, on pale-pink wove paper with red and blue fibers altered to a golden tone
52.6 × 37.7 cm (20.7 × 14.8 in)

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