DETAILS
- Artist
- Honoré Sharrer
- Date
- 1982
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Location
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Dimensions
- 39 1/2 x 43 1/2 in. (100.3 x 110.5 cm)
- Collection
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Credit line
- Anonymous Gift, 1987
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