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FUNERARY ART -- MEMORIAL MADE OF HUMAN HAIR. N.d. (19th c.). 270 x 215 mm (image size). Under thick cont. passepartout, framed and glazed. (The fence surrounding the grave a bit dam., passepartout age-toned/browned). -- Added: A. CHANLOT. Les ouvrages en cheveux. Leurs secrets. (Paris, 1986). 114 pp. Obrds. -- (2).
Ad 1: Rural landscape scene with trees (i.a. a wheeping willow) and a mill on the horizon and a grave in the centre, the tombstone being a lady's photo portrait in traditional Dutch (Zeeland?) costume, but the rest for the greater part made of human hair of the deceased, mounted on transparant glass lying on coloured background.€ 100
result € 80
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