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This bold pattern illustrates bright daffodils and other budding spring flowers, using a sparse palette to emphasize these harbingers of spring without the season's archetypal pastels. The hatched background reads as graphic stripes from afar, creating a floral that is far from dainty.
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In overall good condition and ready to hang. Please note that these original watercolors became designs used in print-making and may contain holes, notations and/or other interesting marks. Detailed inspection reveals minor surface staining. With rough cut left, right, and upper edges. With scattered pieces of tape tape remains at the extreme edges. With three hole punches along the upper edge, each 5⁄16 in. in diameter. The left and right holes are torn though to the edge, the left one unsuccessfully repair with tape. With an additional hole punch, 1⁄4 in diameter, at the upper left corner, not punched through. With scattered registration pinholes. With a small circle bisected by horizontal and vertical lines in ballpoint pen at lower left corner.