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Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas

Dancer Bending Forward

1874/79
Charcoal with stumping, heightened with white and yellow pastel with stumping, on blue laid paper ruled with charcoal
46.2 × 30.4 cm (18.2 × 12 in)

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