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Odilon Redon

It Is a Skull Wreathed with Roses. It Dominates a Woman's Torso of Pearly Whiteness

1888
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Publisher Edmond Deman commissioned this portfolio after he saw an 1886 exhibition of Redon's work in Brussels, Belgium.

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