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The impotent wing did not lift the animal into those black spaces, Odilon Redon

The impotent wing did not lift the animal into those black spaces

L'Aile impuissante n'eleva point la bete en ces noirs espaces (The impotent wing did not lift the animal into that black space (museum title)

Odilon Redon (French) (1840-1916)

Movement
Symbolism
Date
1883
Medium
Lithograph
Collection
National Gallery of Art, United States
Rights
Public domain
Photograph
National Gallery of Art, public domain

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