Odilon Redon

Melancholy

1876
Various charcoals and gouache, with pastel and black chalk, and touches of stumping and erasing, on pale-pink wove paper with red and blue fibers altered to a golden tone, laid down on gray wove paper
36.8 × 35.7 cm (14.5 × 14.1 in)

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