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Edvard Munch

Woman's Head against the Shore

1899
Woodcut printed from two blocks (each sawn into two sections) in light green, orange, blue-green, and red-brown ink on ivory Japanese paper
46.5 × 41.1 cm (18.3 × 16.2 in)

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