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    "label": "Bestiaire Fabuleux",
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    "title": "Bestiaire Fabuleux",
    "description": "This book of poems with accompanying gouaches (opaque watercolors) and calligrams (figures made up of letters) about fantastic beasts and imaginary animals was bound by Thérèse Moncey. It features an abstract, birdlike form designed by the binder and won the French Grand Prix for Bookbinding in 1950.",
    "provenance": "Mrs. Robert H. Levi, Lutherville, MD; given to Walters Art Museum, 1977.",
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