Odilon Redon

The Beacon

1883, reworked c. 1893
Pastel, with various charcoals and touches of black chalk, stumping and erasing, on pale-pink wove paper with red fibers altered to a golden tone, laid down on cardboard
51.5 × 37.2 cm (20.3 × 14.6 in)

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