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The Sphinx, 1883. Various charcoals, with touches of black chalk, stumping, wiping, and erasing, on pale-pink wove paper with red and blue fibers altered to a golden tone.
Various charcoals, with touches of black chalk, stumping, wiping, and erasing, on pale-pink wove paper with red and blue fibers altered to a golden tone · 52.6 × 37.7 cm · Art Institute of Chicago
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- Museum title
- The Sphinx
- Artist
- Odilon Redon French, 1840-1916
- Date
- 1883
- Medium
- Various charcoals, with touches of black chalk, stumping, wiping, and erasing, on pale-pink wove paper with red and blue fibers altered to a golden tone
- Dimensions
- 52.6 × 37.7 cm (20 3/4 × 14 7/8 in.)
- Credit line
- David Adler Collection
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Artist’s life 1840–1916
View in the AtlasGaller’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.