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Odilon Redon

Strange Flower (Little Sister of the Poor)

1880
Various charcoals, with touches of black chalk and black Conté crayon, stumping, incising and erasing, on yellowish cream wove paper altered to a golden tone
40.4 × 33.2 cm (15.9 × 13.1 in)

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