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This is How the Tree Breaks

1999

William Kentridge

Artist, South African, born 1955

William Kentridge

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Artwork overview

Medium

etching with hand additions on collaged paper
Credit Line

Gift of Christopher and Beverly With in memory of Karl and Gerda With
Dimensions

sheet: 34.29 × 49.53 cm (13 1/2 × 19 1/2 in.)
Accession Number

2024.156.9

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Robert Brown Gallery, Washington, DC, 2001); Christopher and Beverly With

Associated Names

With, Christopher

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