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"Oannes: "Moi, la premiere conscience du chaos, j'ai surgi de l'abime pour durcir la matiere, pour regler les formes" (Oannes: I, the first consciousness of chaos, arose from the abyss to harden matter, to regulate forms), plate XIV, btwn. pgs. 136 and 137, in the book La Tentation de Saint-Antoine (Editions Ambroise Vollard, 1938)
Date:
1896
Location:
Not on display
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Media:
Lithograph On Arches Wove Paper
Dimensions:
Image: 279 x 217 mm (11 x 8 9/16 in.); Sheet: 445 x 335 mm (17 1/2 x 13 3/16 in.)
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Continent:
Europe
Accession Number:
2000.200.5.13
Acquisition Date:
2000-12-31
Credit Line:
Gift of the Reva and David Logan Foundation
image of a dark figure elaborately dressed within a dark background
Contemporaneous Works “Art from the same century and country”
