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Odilon Redon

Cauldron of the Sorceress

1879
Various charcoals, with stumping, erasing, and incising, on pale-pink wove paper with red and blue fibers altered to a golden tone
40.8 × 37.1 cm (16.1 × 14.6 in)

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