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Madonna
Edvard Munch · 1895/96
Madonna by Edvard Munch: A work made of handcolored lithograph in black on mottled gray-blue wove paper (discolored to gray-green), laid down on white wove pap…
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Notice the frontal figure’s pale face and dark eyes against the flowing hair and surrounding lines; sacred title and modern sensuality remain deliberately tense.
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A work made of handcolored lithograph in black on mottled gray-blue wove paper (discolored to gray-green), laid down on white wove paper.
Source institution: Art Institute of Chicago
Rights status: CC0 / Art Institute of Chicago Open Access
Rights status: CC0 / Art Institute of Chicago Open Access
Art Institute of Chicago
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