Self-Portrait — Ilya Bolotowsky

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Artist: Ilya Bolotowsky
Date: 1936
Medium: Oil on canvas
Location: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Dimensions: 18 × 14 in. (45.7 × 35.6 cm)

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