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Skinny Knits
Skinny Knits
Skinny Knits

Tear sheet

Skinny Knits
Artist (1919 - 2017)
SignatureNon signé / Unsigned
InscriptionsOn front, handwritten, l.c.: NOV. 1969; on front, printed on newsprint paper, u.c.: EATON'S / Canada' Christmas Store; on front, printed on newsprint paper, l.c.: SKINNY KNITS / Spare little riblings. Long. Lean. And Lanky. So that's the way you look. / [...]; on back, printed on newsprint paper: [...]
Period Fin 20e siècle
Dimensions53.5 × 36.8 cm
Origin Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Object NumberM2017.118.413
CreditGift of Georgine Strathy

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