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Honoré-Victorin Daumier

“- But I am telling you, they are friends.... they are just expressing themselves to each other,” plate 9 from Les Amis

1845
Lithograph in black on white wove paper
23.5 × 19.3 cm (9.3 × 7.6 in)

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