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Mid century Modern 1960s Abstract Expressionist painting, renowned artist Signed
Located in New York, NY
20th-century American painter most known for his abstract art, portraiture, and political paintings
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1960s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

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Mixed Media, Acrylic, Gouache, Permanent Marker

1950s Abstract Expressionist Oil Painting, Blue Brown Orange Sage Green
By Charles Ragland Bunnell
Located in Denver, CO
Abstract expressionist oil painting on board from 1955 by Charles Bunnell. Abstract shapes in
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1950s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

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Board, Oil

Birth, 1940s Modernist Surrealist Abstract Figural Watercolor Painting
By Charles Ragland Bunnell
Located in Denver, CO
Birth, semi-abstract, modernist, somewhat surrealist, vintage 1943 painting of a female figure
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1940s Surrealist Figurative Paintings

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Watercolor

Modernist Family Outing with Dog (Picnic in the Park) Ben Benn Oil Painting WPA
By Ben Benn
Located in Surfside, FL
America to try to digest the lessons of Cubism Benn Benn was a pioneer American modernist whose
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Mid-20th Century Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Cripple Creek Victor Mine, Colorado Mountain Landscape, 1940 Watercolor Painting
By Charles Ragland Bunnell
Located in Denver, CO
chose one of his paintings – Why? - for its large exhibition of several hundred examples of abstract and
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1940s Abstract Landscape Paintings

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Watercolor

1920s Colorado Landscape Painting, Framed Western Oil Painting, Sky and Buttes
By Charles Ragland Bunnell
Located in Denver, CO
other similar abstract paintings constitute the highlight of his career during which, in the words of Al
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1920s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Board, Oil

Modernist Self Portrait of The Artist
By Bren Bauer
Located in Soquel, CA
. She primarily works in abstract themes in a variety of mediums. In her expressive paintings one can
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20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Oil Pastel, Paper

View From the Park (Colorado) Mountain View Oil Landscape Painting
By Charles Ragland Bunnell
Located in Denver, CO
his paintings – Why? - for its large exhibition of several hundred examples of abstract and surrealist
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Pikes Peak, 1940s Colorado Mountain Landscape in Autumn, Tempera Painting
By Charles Ragland Bunnell
Located in Denver, CO
similar abstract paintings constitute the highlight of his career during which, in the words of Al Kochka
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1930s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Egg Tempera, Board

Manitou, Colorado with Pikes Peak View, 1920s Mountain Landscape Oil Painting
By Charles Ragland Bunnell
Located in Denver, CO
similar abstract paintings constitute the highlight of his career during which, in the words of Al Kochka
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1920s American Modern Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Mary Dwyer, Elizabeth Cady Stanton_Seneca Falls 1870s_2014_acrylic on board,
By Mary Dwyer
Located in Darien, CT
the American Folk Art tradition with an abstract modernist aesthetic. The inspiration of her work
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2010s Folk Art Portrait Paintings

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Board, Acrylic

Mary Dwyer, Susan B. Anthony On the Road Again, 2014, Arcylic Paint, Wood Panel
By Mary Dwyer
Located in Darien, CT
tradition with an abstract modernist aesthetic. The inspiration of her work revolves around historic lore
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21st Century and Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Wood Panel, Acrylic

Mary Dwyer, Nast vs. Boss Tweed, 1870s, 2013, Acrylic Paint, Wood Panel
By Mary Dwyer
Located in Darien, CT
modernist aesthetic. The inspiration of her work revolves around historic lore and love of early portraiture
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21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Wood Panel, Acrylic

Mary Dwyer, Ida Tarbell, 2017, watercolor on paper, Suffragists and Journalists
By Mary Dwyer
Located in Darien, CT
political cartoons and early portraiture paintings. An integral part of this work is research. Spurred by an
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2010s Feminist Portrait Paintings

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Archival Paper, Acrylic

Mary Dwyer, Nellie Bly, 2017, watercolor on paper, Suffragists and Journalists
By Mary Dwyer
Located in Darien, CT
political cartoons and early portraiture paintings. An integral part of this work is research. Spurred by an
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2010s Feminist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Archival Paper, Acrylic

Mary Dwyer, Rachel Carson, 2017, watercolor on paper, Suffragists and Journalists
By Mary Dwyer
Located in Darien, CT
political cartoons and early portraiture paintings. An integral part of this work is research. Spurred by an
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2010s Feminist Portrait Paintings

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Archival Paper, Acrylic

My Self
By Franz Bergmann
Located in West Hollywood, CA
painting and portraiture. Although schooled in the academic tradition, Bergmann also adopted elements
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1930s Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

The paradox, bust portrait of a jester, 2002
By Edward Povey
Located in ATLANTA, GA
forms with pure abstract forms in the same paintings, giving rise to a seamless ‘visual language’: one
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Departure, 2020
By Edward Povey
Located in ATLANTA, GA
forms with pure abstract forms in the same paintings, giving rise to a seamless ‘visual language’: one
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Paintings

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Linen, Oil

 Departure, 2020
H 66.93 in W 51.18 in D 1.57 in
CHILD, 2008
By Edward Povey
Located in ATLANTA, GA
forms with pure abstract forms in the same paintings, giving rise to a seamless ‘visual language’: one
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Linen

 CHILD, 2008
H 28 in W 25 in D 2 in
HIGH SHELF, 2009
By Edward Povey
Located in ATLANTA, GA
forms with pure abstract forms in the same paintings, giving rise to a seamless ‘visual language’: one
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Linen

BECOMING MEN AND WOMEN, 2008
By Edward Povey
Located in ATLANTA, GA
forms with pure abstract forms in the same paintings, giving rise to a seamless ‘visual language’: one
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Linen

DEUTEROS II, 2016
By Edward Povey
Located in ATLANTA, GA
forms with pure abstract forms in the same paintings, giving rise to a seamless ‘visual language’: one
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Linen, Plaster, Paper, Oil

AVERROËS, 2016
By Edward Povey
Located in ATLANTA, GA
forms with pure abstract forms in the same paintings, giving rise to a seamless ‘visual language’: one
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Linen, Plaster, Paper, Oil

 AVERROËS, 2016
H 54 in W 66 in D 2 in
ADROGUE II, 2013-2016
By Edward Povey
Located in ATLANTA, GA
forms with pure abstract forms in the same paintings, giving rise to a seamless ‘visual language’: one
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Linen, Plaster, Paper, Oil

Point nine recurring
By Edward Povey
Located in ATLANTA, GA
forms with pure abstract forms in the same paintings, giving rise to a seamless ‘visual language’: one
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Linen, Plaster, Paper, Oil

Twins
By Edward Povey
Located in ATLANTA, GA
forms with pure abstract forms in the same paintings, giving rise to a seamless ‘visual language’: one
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Twins
H 72 in W 50 in D 2 in
Fairy
By Edward Povey
Located in ATLANTA, GA
forms with pure abstract forms in the same paintings, giving rise to a seamless ‘visual language’: one
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

Fairy
H 48 in W 64 in D 2 in
Private Courtyard
By Edward Povey
Located in ATLANTA, GA
forms with pure abstract forms in the same paintings, giving rise to a seamless ‘visual language’: one
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

 Private Courtyard
H 58 in W 42 in D 1 in
One Thousand, 2015
By Edward Povey
Located in ATLANTA, GA
forms with pure abstract forms in the same paintings, giving rise to a seamless ‘visual language’: one
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21st Century and Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Plaster, Linen, Mixed Media, Oil

Golden Cycle Mill, Colorado, 1940s WPA Mining Watercolor Landscape, Black White
By Charles Ragland Bunnell
Located in Denver, CO
other similar abstract paintings constitute the highlight of his career during which, in the words of Al
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1940s American Modern Landscape Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

Gnarled Tree - African American Artist
By Charles Alston
Located in Miami, FL
Artist Charles Henry Alston prefigures his Abstract Expressionist paintings of the early and mid-1950s
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1930s American Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Charcoal

1930s Graphite Drawing, American Modern City Scene of Houses on a Hill, Colorado
By Charles Ragland Bunnell
Located in Denver, CO
similar abstract paintings constitute the highlight of his career during which, in the words of Al Kochka
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1930s American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Graphite

WPA 1940s Framed Figurative Village Landscape with Figures Houses Mountains
By Charles Ragland Bunnell
Located in Denver, CO
similar abstract paintings constitute the highlight of his career during which, in the words of Al Kochka
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1940s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

"Ram's Head" from the suite "Bestiary and some Correspondences"
By Graham Sutherland
Located in San Francisco, CA
into a public controversy that pitted Sutherland's modernist approach to portraiture against the
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Mid-20th Century Surrealist Animal Prints

Materials

Lithograph

"Chained Beast" from the suite "Bestiary and some Correspondences"
By Graham Sutherland
Located in San Francisco, CA
into a public controversy that pitted Sutherland's modernist approach to portraiture against the
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Mid-20th Century Surrealist Animal Prints

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Lithograph

"Frontpiece to a Bestiary" From the suite "Bestiary and some Correspondences"
By Graham Sutherland
Located in San Francisco, CA
turned into a public controversy that pitted Sutherland's modernist approach to portraiture against the
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Mid-20th Century Surrealist Animal Prints

Materials

Lithograph

"Sheet of Studies" from the suite "Bestiary and some Correspondences"
By Graham Sutherland
Located in San Francisco, CA
turned into a public controversy that pitted Sutherland's modernist approach to portraiture against the
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Mid-20th Century Surrealist Animal Prints

Materials

Lithograph

"Sheet of Studies" from the suite "Bestiary and some Correspondences"
By Graham Sutherland
Located in San Francisco, CA
commission turned into a public controversy that pitted Sutherland's modernist approach to portraiture
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Mid-20th Century Surrealist Animal Prints

Materials

Lithograph

"Ants" from the suite "Bestiary and some Correspondences"
By Graham Sutherland
Located in San Francisco, CA
into a public controversy that pitted Sutherland's modernist approach to portraiture against the
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Mid-20th Century Surrealist Animal Prints

Materials

Lithograph

"Ram's Head, Full Face" from the suite "Bestiary and some Correspondences"
By Graham Sutherland
Located in San Francisco, CA
turned into a public controversy that pitted Sutherland's modernist approach to portraiture against the
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Mid-20th Century Surrealist Animal Prints

Materials

Lithograph

"Bird Form" from the suite "Bestiary and some Correspondences"
By Graham Sutherland
Located in San Francisco, CA
into a public controversy that pitted Sutherland's modernist approach to portraiture against the
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Mid-20th Century Surrealist Animal Prints

Materials

Lithograph

"Toad I" from the suite "Bestiary and some Correspondences"
By Graham Sutherland
Located in San Francisco, CA
into a public controversy that pitted Sutherland's modernist approach to portraiture against the
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Mid-20th Century Surrealist Animal Prints

Materials

Lithograph

"Ram's Head" from the suite "Bestiary and some Correspondences"
By Graham Sutherland
Located in San Francisco, CA
into a public controversy that pitted Sutherland's modernist approach to portraiture against the
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Mid-20th Century Surrealist Animal Prints

Materials

Lithograph

"Armadillo" from the suite "Bestiary and some Correspondences"
By Graham Sutherland
Located in San Francisco, CA
into a public controversy that pitted Sutherland's modernist approach to portraiture against the
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Mid-20th Century Surrealist Animal Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Three Organic Forms
By Graham Sutherland
Located in San Francisco, CA
turned into a public controversy that pitted Sutherland's modernist approach to portraiture against the
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Mid-20th Century Surrealist Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Three Organic Forms
Three Organic Forms
H 37 in W 30.25 in D 1.35 in
Submerged Form
By Graham Sutherland
Located in San Francisco, CA
turned into a public controversy that pitted Sutherland's modernist approach to portraiture against the
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Mid-20th Century Surrealist Animal Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Submerged Form
Submerged Form
H 31.5 in W 37.5 in D 1.1 in
Bird and Mouse
By Graham Sutherland
Located in San Francisco, CA
turned into a public controversy that pitted Sutherland's modernist approach to portraiture against the
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Mid-20th Century Surrealist Animal Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Bird and Mouse
Bird and Mouse
H 35.5 in W 29.25 in D 1.1 in
Hybrid
By Graham Sutherland
Located in San Francisco, CA
turned into a public controversy that pitted Sutherland's modernist approach to portraiture against the
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Mid-20th Century Surrealist Animal Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Hybrid
Hybrid
H 39.25 in W 32.5 in D 1.75 in
Beetles II (With Electric Lamp)
By Graham Sutherland
Located in San Francisco, CA
commission turned into a public controversy that pitted Sutherland's modernist approach to portraiture
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Mid-20th Century Surrealist Animal Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Owl (Rose Ground)
By Graham Sutherland
Located in San Francisco, CA
turned into a public controversy that pitted Sutherland's modernist approach to portraiture against the
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Mid-20th Century Surrealist Animal Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Owl (Rose Ground)
Owl (Rose Ground)
H 38.15 in W 31.35 in D 1.25 in
Bird About to Take Flight
By Graham Sutherland
Located in San Francisco, CA
turned into a public controversy that pitted Sutherland's modernist approach to portraiture against the
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Mid-20th Century Surrealist Animal Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Beetles #1
By Graham Sutherland
Located in San Francisco, CA
turned into a public controversy that pitted Sutherland's modernist approach to portraiture against the
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Mid-20th Century Surrealist Animal Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Beetles #1
Beetles #1
H 30.65 in W 36.5 in D 2 in
Hanging Form, Owl and Bats
By Graham Sutherland
Located in San Francisco, CA
Sutherland's modernist approach to portraiture against the Churchill's expectation that the work would depict
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Mid-20th Century Surrealist Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Emerging Insect
By Graham Sutherland
Located in San Francisco, CA
, having been a printmaker of pastoral subjects. He painted his landscapes in an abstract style, showing
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Mid-20th Century Surrealist Animal Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Cynocephalus
By Graham Sutherland
Located in San Francisco, CA
turned into a public controversy that pitted Sutherland's modernist approach to portraiture against the
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Mid-20th Century Surrealist Animal Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Cynocephalus
Cynocephalus
H 39 in W 32.25 in D 0.85 in
"Insect, Simulating Seeds" Important color lithograph.
By Graham Sutherland
Located in San Francisco, CA
into a public controversy that pitted Sutherland's modernist approach to portraiture against the
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Mid-20th Century Surrealist Animal Prints

Materials

Lithograph

"Chauve-Souris" from the suite "Bestiary and some Correspondence"
By Graham Sutherland
Located in San Francisco, CA
into a public controversy that pitted Sutherland's modernist approach to portraiture against the
Category

Mid-20th Century Surrealist Animal Prints

Materials

Lithograph

"Chauve-Souris in a Looking-Glass against a Window"
By Graham Sutherland
Located in San Francisco, CA
modernist approach to portraiture against the Churchill's expectation that the work would depict the subject
Category

Mid-20th Century Surrealist Animal Prints

Materials

Lithograph

"Sheet of Studies" from the suite "Bestiary and some Correspondences"
By Graham Sutherland
Located in San Francisco, CA
modernist approach to portraiture against the Churchill's expectation that the work would depict the subject
Category

Mid-20th Century Surrealist Animal Prints

Materials

Lithograph

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