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Paintings For Sale
Period: 19th Century
Period: 1970s
Paul W. Wood Modernist Abstract Cityscape, 1979
By Paul W. Wood
Located in San Francisco, CA
Paul Winthrop Wood modernist abstract cityscape, 1979
Modernist Abstract Landscape
Oil on Board
18" x 34" unframed, 24.5" x 40.5" framed
Paul Winthrop Wood
1922-2003
Wood was born on August 29, 1922, in Kingsville, ON, Canada. He was the son of Albert G., an architect and Louise Wood. He married Jacqueline Stark, a pianist, on September 4, 1953.
Wood attended Grand Central School of Art, 1938, New School for Social Research, 1939, and Art Students League in New York from 1939-41 and 1946-47.
He was a portrait painter in 1948 at Paul W. Wood Studio, Port Washington, NY, owner, 1949-68, and a part-time course tutor.
He taught at the Open University, Milton Keynes, England, beginning in 1980 and at the Department of Art History, 1993-2003.
Wood was president of the Pleasant Hill, Inc., former director of Albert Wood and Five Sons...
Category
1970s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of a Russian Artist or Dignitary
Located in Stockholm, SE
This 19th-century oil on canvas portrait depicts a distinguished male figure—probably Russian and possibly an artist or a dignitary—with a striking resemblance to the renowned Russia...
Category
19th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
CLAUDE MONET Style 19th CENTURY IMPRESSIONISM OLD MASTER OIL PAINTING
Located in Ferndown, GB
OIL PAINTING Antique 19th Century Fine Quality Piece Gold Gilt frame
OLD MASTER OIL PAINTING BRITISH SCHOOL 19th Century in a Gold Frame
Description.
19th century Piece
“Good C...
Category
Mid-19th Century Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil
19th century English marine, The Thames at the Pool of London, original frame
By Bernard Benedict Hemy
Located in Woodbury, CT
Bernard Hemy - Bernard Benedict Hemy (1844 - 1910). Marine and Coastal painter in oil and watercolor. Born in Newcastle to Henry F. Hemy, brother...
Category
1890s Victorian Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American Hudson River School Landscape Cows Oil Painting Gilt Frame 19th
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique Quintessential American Hudson River School landscape by an unknown Hudson River School artist.
This painting features its original period gold frame, and a charming scene o...
Category
1860s Hudson River School Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Ten Lemons on Blue, Large Photorealist Painting by Lowell Blair Nesbitt
Located in Long Island City, NY
Lowell Blair Nesbitt's arrangement of lemons against a blue tablecloth is full of contrast and color. With light shining over the table and casting shadows across the cloth, the lemo...
Category
1970s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Ballerina Silouette Oil Painting #2
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
6030 Ballerina silhouette oil painting in white on a black backround
Signed verso Robert Yarmola
Framed
Image 17.75x10.75
Category
1970s Paintings
Materials
Oil
A Muse Berkeley Figurative School by Patricia Gren Hayes 1975
Located in Soquel, CA
A Muse - Figurative Study in Oil on Canvas
A nude man wearing a sailor hat while he looks down at a woman sitting on sheets of red and blue by American painter, Patricia Gren Hayes ...
Category
1970s American Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
19th Century English Impressionist Oil Painting Girls & Dogs on Beach in Spring
Located in Gerrards Cross, GB
‘A Breeze after a Bathe’ by Walter Duncan ARWS (1847-1932).
The painting – which depicts three young Victorian ladies and their dogs on Bournemouth beach after a swim – is signed b...
Category
1870s Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Listed Artist Samuel West (1810-1867) Antique oil on canvas, Dated 1860 Portrait
Located in Palm Coast, FL
This is an Antique oil painting on canvas 19 century depicting a portrait of a British Gentleman by Listed British-Irish Artist Samuel West (1810-1860).
C...
Category
1860s Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Fine Victorian English Fruit Still Life Grape, Lemons & Raspberries Oil Painting
By Oliver Clare
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Still Life of Fruit
by Oliver Clare (British 1853-1927)
oil on canvas, framed
framed: 11 x 14 inches
canvas : 6 x 9 inches
Provenance: private collection, England
Condition: very go...
Category
19th Century Victorian Paintings
Materials
Oil
Toby Rosenthal (German painter) - 19th century figure painting - Male portrait
Located in Varmo, IT
Tobias Edward Rosenthal, known as Toby (Strasbourg 1848 - Munich 1917) - Portrait of a San Francisco gentleman.
123 x 92 cm.
Antique oil painting on canvas, without frame.
- Work ...
Category
Late 19th Century Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Late 19th Century Original English Landscape of a Cottage in Cambria
Located in Soquel, CA
Late 19th Century Original English Landscape of a Cottage in Cambria
Wonderful original antique painting of a thatched cottage in Cambria by...
Category
1880s Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Illustration Board, Gouache
19th Century British Dog Painting Spaniel & Her Puppy Flagstone Floor Barn
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Spaniel & Her Puppy
English School, 19th century
signed 'Burham' lower corner
oil painting on board, framed in a maple veneered frame
framed: 9.5 x 12.5 inches
board : 7 x 10 inc...
Category
19th Century Victorian Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique American Hudson River School Oil Painting Cows Landscape Troy New York
Located in Portland, OR
A rather beautiful Hudson River landscape oil on canvas painting by the celebrated New York artist Charles Grant Beauregard (1856-1919), signed and dated 1898.
The painting depicts c...
Category
Late 19th Century Hudson River School Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Vintage American Abstract Oil Painting Trees Landscape Signed
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
5144 Vintage American abstract trees landscape
Category
1970s Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Vagabond and His Dog oil on board painting
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Technical details of the painting
- Title: "The Vagabond and His Dog"
- Artist: Rosendo González Carbonell
- Technique: Oil on panel
- Dimensions (without frame): 10.6 x 11....
Category
1970s Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Antique Oil Painting Boy Walking thru The English Country Side Landscape 1890's
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
6008 Antique English landscape oil painting late 19th century
Gilt frame
Image size 17.5x11.75"
Category
Late 19th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
"The sea in Winter" by Claude Sauthier - Oil on Wood - 92x65 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Claude Sauthier was born in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1929 and passed away in the same city in 2016. He studied at the Geneva School of Decorative Arts and initially worked as a graphi...
Category
1970s Modern Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil
Victorian still lives of fruit and Plums on a mossy bank landscape
By Oliver Clare
Located in Woodbury, CT
This exquisite painting by renowned Victorian English artist Oliver Clare beautifully captures a vibrant still life of fruit on a mossy bank. The composition is a testament to Clar...
Category
1880s Victorian Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Fine 1820's English Georgian Large Portrait of a Country Lady seated with Quill
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Country Lady, depicted Seated wearing a silk glove and with a Quill Pen
English artist, circa 1820's
oil on canvas, unframed
canvas: 35 x 29 inches
provenance: private ...
Category
Early 19th Century English School Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Pair of 19th Century British Equestrian Oil Paintings
Located in London, GB
Pair of 19th century British equestrian oil paintings
British, 19th Century
Boards: Height 25cm, width 32cm
Frames: Height 35cm, width 42cm, depth 4cm
This attractive pair of 19th-c...
Category
19th Century Victorian Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Sam Gilliam Handmade Paper "Untitled #34" Acrylic. Signed & Dated
By Sam Gilliam
Located in Detroit, MI
“Untitled #34” was created by Sam Gilliam, one of the great innovators in postwar American painting. It is dated and signed on the lower front. The thick handmade paper is rich with folds and texture and the colors lively. In addition to Acrylic paint on the surface there appears to be imbedded color in the handmade paper which has additional embossed accents. Unframed the piece measures 16 x 14. Provenance of Yaw Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan is on the verso along with the note that the Paper Surfaces in contact with this artwork are acid free.
In the mid-1960s he emerged from the Washington D.C. scene with works that elaborated upon and disrupted the ethos of Color School painting. A series of formal breakthroughs would soon result in his canonical Drape paintings, which expanded upon the tenets of Abstract Expressionism in entirely new ways. One profound manner was the sculpture aspect of the painting giving it a free flowing expression of pure color.
In the latter half of the 1950s, Washington D.C. saw a flourishing of abstract art that emphasized the form-making capabilities of pure color. Known as The Washington Color School, the loosely affiliated group of abstract painters knew each other through various teaching experiences. The moniker has an uncertain origin but likely originated with the title of a 1965 exhibition at the Washington Gallery of Modern Art, "Washington Color Painters," curated by Gerald Nordland. The show exhibited the works of Kenneth Noland, Paul Reed, Morris Louis, Howard Mehring, Thomas Downing, and Gene Davis. Additionally, Leon Berkowitz...
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Handmade Paper
Escuela española (XIX) - Óleo sobre tela - Retrato femenino
Located in Sant Celoni, ES
La obra no va firmada
La obra se presenta enmarcada con un marco de la época de la pintura (el marco presenta alguna leve falta)
Medidas de la obra: 59 cm. de altura x 48 cm. de an...
Category
Mid-19th Century Old Masters Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Calm Sea
By Ernest Haskell
Located in Fairlawn, OH
The Calm Sea
Oil on mahogany panel, 8 7/16 x 6 1/2 inches
Signed lower left (see photo)
This work was inspired by Haskell's frined, teacher and mentor, James Abbott McNeill Whistler,...
Category
1890s American Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Antique American Important 19th Century Hudson River School Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Impressive early American Hudson River School landscape painting. Oil on paper. Framed. Image size, 7 by 9 inches.
Category
1850s Hudson River School Paintings
Materials
Oil, Paper, Board
Victorian Marine Seascape Large Oil Painting of Pure Seas and Shimmering Light
Located in ludlow, GB
Victorian Marine Seascape Large Oil Painting of Pure Seas and Shimmering Light by the absolute Master of Pure Seas Paintings. This is a beautiful, ethereal work by Henry Moore (THE Henry Moore and not the famous Sculptor!).
The seascape we have for sale is an exquisite example of Moore’s sea-painting (he began painting the sea in the late 1860s), this, produced at the height of his fame and talents, it was painted in 1891. In it he captures the rolling waves as they catch the light and conveys a cool beauty within this deceptively simple composition. There may be a hint of a vessel in the background but maybe it is a trick of the light!! The seagulls dance in the foreground.
Moore manages to straddle two enormous art...
Category
19th Century Victorian Paintings
Materials
Oil
Awakening - Major Royal Academy Oil Painting Neoclassical Nudes Nymphs Sunrise
Located in Gerrards Cross, GB
‘Awakening’ by Herbert James Draper (1864-1920).
This monumental oil painting – which depicts two wood nymphs rising to meet the morning sun – is signed by the artist and dated 1918...
Category
Late 19th Century Pre-Raphaelite Paintings
Materials
Oil
Paysage à la Varenne-Saint-Hilaire
Located in Wien, Wien
Camille Pissarro
Charlotte Amalie 1830 - 1903 Paris
"Paysage à la Varenne-Saint-Hilaire"
Oil on canvas, relined, 27 x 38 cm
Signed & dated 1864 lower right
Provenance:
Dr. Gachet; ...
Category
1860s Paintings
Materials
Oil
"The Musicians" John Nathaniel Fenton, Magical Realist Oil on Canvas Painting
Located in New York, NY
John Nathaniel Fenton
The Musicians
Signed lower left
Oil on canvas
51 1/2 x 41 1/2 inches
John Nathaniel Fenton is a twentieth century American painter, printmaker and painter wh...
Category
1970s Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Venice San Giorgio Marina Canaletto 19th Century Paint Oil on canvas Old master
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
View of Venice with the Island of San Giorgio Maggiore
Follower of Canaletto (Venice, 1697 – Venice, 1768)
Venice - 19th century
oil on canvas
29 x 39 cm. - Framed 40 x 50 cm.
Wel...
Category
19th Century Old Masters Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique Dutch 19th century ships at sea, fishing boats, men rowing.
Located in Woodbury, CT
A very well-painted Dutch 19th century marine scene. The small boat is full of men who are rowing hard to get to the larger vessels, possibly to either take goods on or off the large...
Category
1870s Victorian Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Edward Williams (Circle), River Landscape With Thatched Cottage & Windmill
By Edward Williams
Located in Cheltenham, GB
This charming mid-19th-century oil painting depicts a river landscape with a thatched cottage, boatmen, and windmill. It’s reminiscent of works by English artist Edward Williams (178...
Category
1850s English School Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
W.D. West - Framed Late 19th Century Oil, In the Church
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming late 19th century oil by W.D. West depicting mother and child attending church.
Presented in a stained oak frame with a gilt inner edge. Signed to the lower right. Inscri...
Category
Late 19th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
19th Century landscape oil painting of a shepherd & flock in a country lane
Located in Nr Broadway, Worcestershire
George Turner
British, (1843-1910)
Near Tonge, Leicestershire
Oil on canvas, signed
Image size: 15.25 inches x 23.25 inches
Size including frame: 22.75 inches x 30.75 inches
A cha...
Category
19th Century Victorian Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
For Restoration - English School 19th Century Oil, Cottage of the Waterfront
Located in Corsham, GB
A quaint 19th century landscape with a cottage and lake. Well presented in an ornate gilt effect frame. Unsigned. On panel.
Category
19th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
Large Antique German Oil on Canvas Norwegian Fjord Landscape River Boats Scene
Located in Portland, OR
A very fine & Large oil on canvas painting by Karl Julius Rose (1828-1911), "Norwegian Fjord", signed and dated 1890.
The artist also painted under the nam...
Category
1890s Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Broken Ice, Large Mid-20th Century Gouache, Op Art Cleveland School Artist
By Edwin Mieczkowski
Located in Beachwood, OH
Edwin Mieczkowski (American, 1929-2017)
Broken Ice, 1976
Gouache and pencil on paper
Signed, dated (Feb. 2, 1976) and titled lower right
27.5 x 37.75 inches
35 x 45 inches, framed
E...
Category
1970s Op Art Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Pencil
Antique Painting Plethora of Ripe Raspberries in Fruit Basket signed Bohner
Located in Buffalo, NY
Original frame to the painting. Dramatic highlights and shadows.
Category
Late 19th Century Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Cardinal Painting the Virgin Mary
Located in St. Albans, GB
This painting by Henri Brispot stands out amongst many pieces that he ever painted. It was sold in New York for $20 000 and is a wonderful example of his satirical nature shown throu...
Category
Late 19th Century French School Paintings
Materials
Oil
Brook by the Church (Antique Oil on Panel, signed "M. Allen", Framed)
Located in New Orleans, LA
A beautiful Barbizon-style (though likely not French) landscape of a stream through the woods in the evening, with a church in the distance. It is signed "M. Allen." It is an evening...
Category
Late 19th Century Barbizon School Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique French Oil Classical Figures in a Romantic Woodland Landscape & Swans
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Riverside Gathering
French Rococo School, 19th century
signed lower front corner
oil on canvas, framed
Framed: 26 x 34 inches
Canvas: 24 x 32 inches
Provenance: private collection, F...
Category
19th Century Rococo Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of an Elderly Man
Located in Stockholm, SE
This finely executed oil painting, attributed to the circle of Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich, captures the contemplative expression of an elderly man, his gaze lowered in quiet re...
Category
Early 19th Century Old Masters Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Paris
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Molded frame in plaster and gilded wood
70 x 57 x 8 cm
Category
Late 19th Century Italian School Paintings
Materials
Oil
Rural Life in Summer: 19th C Island Village Scene, Figures and Animals painting
Located in Norwich, GB
A wonderful and idyllic, mid 19th Century summery village scene, where a pretty young girl stands, knitting (perhaps she is secretly waiting for someone?), village women eat and work...
Category
Mid-19th Century French School Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Wissous - French Impressionist Landscape near Paris Road Haystack Oil Painting
Located in Sevenoaks, GB
A beautiful signed and dated 1901 oil on paper laid on board by Auguste Grass-Mick, the French impressionist painter who was friends with Edgar Degas and Henri Toulouse-Lautrec.
Gr...
Category
1890s Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Board
Salobreña Granada Spain oil painting landscape seascape
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Title: Salobreña
Artist: Rafael Duran Benet (Terrassa, 1931 – Barcelona, 2015)
Technique: Oil on canvas board
Dimensions: 13 x 16.1 in
Support: Canvas board, unframed
Signature: Sign...
Category
1970s Post-Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
Portrait of a Pekingese Dog Charming Antique English Watercolour Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Pekingese Dog
English artist, late 19th century
Watercolour drawing on board, unframed
drawing: 7.25 x 5 inches
Provenance: Private collection, UK
Condition: This paint...
Category
Late 19th Century Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
19th Century Oil - La Rue Saint Rouen
Located in Corsham, GB
Signed illegibly and inscribed with location. Monograph to the reverse on the canvas with initials V. M. G. Presented in a gilt frame with a cotton slip. On canvas.
Category
19th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
Market day crayons drawing Spanish
By Jordi Curos
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Jordi Curós Ventura (1930-2007) - Market - Crayons.
Work measurements 65x50 cm.
Frame size 83x68 cm.
Jordi Curós Ventura (Olot, Girona, March 4, 1930) is a Spanish painter.
He trai...
Category
1970s Fauvist Paintings
Materials
Crayon
Modern Reclining Nude Study of Red Haired Woman
Located in Soquel, CA
Modern nude study of red-haired woman reclining seated by American painter, Patricia Gren Hayes (b. 1932), 1979.
Signed and dated on verso
Provenance: Purchased as part of larger collection of artist's work
Unframed.
Canvas size: 16"H x 20"W.
Patricia Gren Hayes (American, b. 1932) is a Bay Area Figurative & Feminist Art Movement artist who studied at Winnipeg Public Art School in 1950. She received early recognition in Museum and Gallery competitions and exhibitions and was awarded a Special Education in Art recognition by the Winnipeg Museum of Fine Art, and was awarded a scholarship to the Banff College of Fine Art. Further studies were at The University of Manitoba.
She was a Member of Winnipeg Free Press Sketch Club and was a Cartoonist and paste-up for a French-English bi-weekly, in Eastern Canada;
She studied outdoor impressionism in New York in 1960; in 1962, attended The California College of Arts and Crafts, and in 1976 B.A., U.C. Berkeley where she studied under Elmer Bischoff, David Simpson, Joan Brown, Felix Ruvolo, Yolanda Lopez and Vincent Perez.
She started a freelance commercial art business in 1963; copyrighted a National Cartoon, 1976, and served as Exhibition Director for San Francisco Woman Artists Gallery and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1976-1978. She was a workshop instructor at the San Francisco Woman Artists Gallery, 1977-1985; and was Manager/Owner Stanton Art Gallery, Alameda, CA, 1976-1982.
Solo Exhibitions:
Berkeley Marina, 1974;
Oakland Center for The Visual Arts, "Images of Women", 1979
Group Exhibitions:
Oakland's Dept of Education, 1963, Studio One;
Alameda County Fair, 1975, 1976, 1978;
San Francisco Art Festival, 1969, 1970, 1976, 1977, 1978;
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1976, 1977, 1978;
San Francisco Women Artists Gallery Exhibition, award winner - 1970, 1977, 1978;
Hayward Bay Fair Art Festival, award winner - 1971;
Capricorn Assunder Gallery, 1973;
Oakland Art Festival, 1973, 1974;
Alameda Art Association, 1978;
El Cerrito...
Category
1970s American Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Summer Day on the West Coast of Sweden by Swedish Impressionist Alfred Wahlberg
Located in Stockholm, SE
Alfred Wahlberg was a distinguished Swedish landscape painter whose career spanned Germany, France, and Sweden. During his early years, he resided in D...
Category
Late 19th Century Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Paris Art on a Spring Morning
Located in Soquel, CA
Paris street scene by a French street artist signed lower right. Label on verso "Angelo Ponza" Art Gallery Naples, Italy.
Image, 16"H x 20"W
Frame, 20"H x 24"W
Category
1970s Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
On the Conwy - 19th Century Oil Painting Exhibition RBA Landscape of North Wales
Located in Gerrards Cross, GB
‘On the Conwy, North Wales’ by Charles Smith (1841-1917)
The painting is signed by the artist and dated 1869 in which year it was exhibited at the Royal Society of British Artists a...
Category
1860s Victorian Paintings
Materials
Oil
Signed Antique 19th Century American School Nautical Steamship Seascape Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American school 19th century seascape painting. Oil on canvas, circa 1870. Signed illegbily. Image size 25L x 14H. Housed i...
Category
1870s Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
WEISS British painting Landscape Sussex flooded river tree 19th
By José Weiss
Located in PARIS, FR
José WEISS Neuilly-sur-Seine, 1859 - Houghton (England), 1919
Oil on wooden panel Signed lower left “José Weiss”
40 x 61.5 cm (54 x 75 cm with the frame)
Joseph Vincent Nicholas Fr...
Category
19th Century English School Paintings
Materials
Oil
Dog Portrait of a Hunting Dog by Jules Chardigny (1849-1892)
Located in SANTA FE, NM
Antique Dog Painting of a Hunting Dog
Jules Chardigny (1849-1892)
Circa 1870
Oil on paper.
8 x 6 (18 1/2 x 15 1/4 frame) inches
In Jules Chardigny's signature style, a beloved compa...
Category
1860s Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Laid Paper
Three Sisters in the Cascade Range, Oregon Lake with Birds Migrating
Located in Soquel, CA
Three Sisters in the Cascade Range, Oregon
Landscape scene depicting three snowcapped mountains, also known as "The Three Sisters," surrounded by evergreen trees by John Englehart...
Category
Late 19th Century Tonalist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen
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Cave walls were the canvases for what were arguably the world’s first landscape paintings, which depict natural scenery through art. Portrait paintings and drawings, which, along with sculpture, were how someone’s appearance was recorded prior to the advent of photography, are at least as old as Ancient Egypt. In the Netherlands, landscapes were a major theme for painters as early as the 1500s. Later, artists in Greece, Rome and elsewhere created vast wall paintings to decorate stately homes, churches and tombs.
Today, creating a wall of art is a wonderful way to enhance your space, showcase beautiful pieces and tie an interior design together.
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