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Odilon Redon

Then There Appears a Singular Being, Having the Head of a Man On the Body of a Fish, plate 5 of 10

1888
Lithograph in black on ivory China paper, laid down on ivory wove paper (chine collé)
27.6 × 17.1 cm (10.9 × 6.7 in)

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