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Odilon Redon

Guardian Spirit of the Waters

1878
Various charcoals, with touches of black chalk, stumping, erasing, incising, and subtractive sponge work, heightened with traces of white chalk, on cream wove paper altered to a golden tone
46.6 × 37.6 cm (18.3 × 14.8 in)

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