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Untitled (Incised Plaster)
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Rights: © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
Busch-Reisinger Museum
The artist by bequest; to Werner Schmidt; Sebastian Schmidt gift; to the Busch-Reisinger Museum 2017.
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum Gift of Sebastian Schmidt
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