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Odilon Redon

Death: "My Irony Surpasses All Others"

1888
Transfer lithograph in black ink on thin ivory wove paper, laid down on heavyweight ivory wove plate paper (chine collé)
26.1 × 19.7 cm (10.3 × 7.8 in)

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