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No Name (elephant) from Portfolio for Meyer Shapiro
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Solvent transfer from broken stone embossment, For Meyer Schapiro
For Meyer Schapiro, Drawings and Prints, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York NY, Gift of Thomas B. Hess in memory of Audrey Stern Hess 1974
Title: No Name (elephant) from Portfolio for Meyer Shapiro
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Solvent transfer from broken stone embossment, For Meyer Schapiro.
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