Chris Orr RA, Return to the future - Shanghai, 2006.
Lithograph. 448 mm x 573 mm. © The Artist. © Photo: Royal Academy of Arts, London. Photographer: Prudence Cuming Associates Limited.
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Return to the future - Shanghai, 2006
Chris Orr RA (b. 1943)
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