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Odilon Redon

The Eye, Like a Strange Balloon Moves Towards Infinity, plate one from To Edgar Poe

1882
Lithograph in black on ivory China paper, laid down on white wove paper
26.3 × 19.8 cm (10.4 × 7.8 in)

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