A brown monochrome print of a draped table holding a small bird and two massive floral arrangements, the right one in a glass vase. A small figure appears in the distant wooded landscape between the towering flowers.

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Artist Albin Brunovsky (Czech, 1935 - 1997)

Date1979

MediumLithograph

Dimensions15 1/2 x 22 5/8 in. (39.4 x 57.5 cm)

ClassificationsPrints

Credit LineGift of Melvin and Lorna Rubin

Object number1995.27.82

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Visual DescriptionA brown monochrome print of a draped table holding a small bird and two massive floral arrangements, the right one in a glass vase. A small figure appears in the distant wooded landscape between the towering flowers.

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