Each day he dotted the virtues he failed to fulfill with a black lead pencil.

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He also showed houndstooth patterns in graphic black and white as in a mink wrap and in blue and black as in a pencil skirt and a pant suit.

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For the first 20 years of his active career, Redon worked almost entirely in black, using charcoal and grease pencil and eventually producing lithographs of images as dark as their media.

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