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Odilon Redon

Primitive Man

1872
Various charcoals, with touches of black chalk, stumping, wiping and erasing, heightened with touches of white and ocher gouache, on cream wove paper altered to a pale, golden tone
39.3 × 33.8 cm (15.5 × 13.3 in)

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