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Figurative Paintings For Sale
Style: Expressionist
Style: Post-Impressionist
Tempête à Honfleur
Located in LE HAVRE, FR
Lyne SEYBEL (1919-2009)
Tempête à Honfleur
Oil on canvas
Size: 65 x 92 cm
Signed lower left.
In perfect state of conservation.
With beautiful frame
Provenance: Family of the artist...
Category
1960s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Running Man 1 by Katya Tsareva - Triptych painting, acrylic on canvas, 2017
Located in Basel, BS
Running Man 1 is a vertical triptych, formed of 3 paintings, 40 x 50 cm each.
The triptych can be seen as a follow-up on Katya Tsareva's 2016 project "S...
Category
2010s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Gaukler Familie mit Instrumenten (Family of Jesters with Instruments)
Located in Washington, DC
German Modernist
Category
1960s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Expressionist Figurative water color painting- Luckiness
Located in Beijing, CN
Expressionist Figurative water color painting by Zhang Chunyang
Title: Luckiness
Dimension: 29 x 36 cm
Material: Gouache, Watercolor on Paper
D...
Category
2010s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Watercolor, Handmade Paper
Expressionist Figurative water color painting- Series The Horse Whisper No.2-25
Located in Beijing, CN
Expressionist Figurative water color painting by Zhang Chunyang
Series The Horse Whisper No.2-25
Dimension: 29 x 36 cm
Material: Gouache, Watercolor on Paper
Date: 2013
Artist B...
Category
2010s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Watercolor, Handmade Paper
Sur le balcon (On the Balcony)
Located in Washington, DC
Exhibited:
Société Nationale des Beaux-arts, Paris, 1893 (as Jeune Fille arrosant ses fleurs)
Literature:
Michel, Jean Pierre, François Guiguet (Corbelin, France, 1996), p. 102 (n...
Category
1890s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
La lecture au jardin (Lesson in the Garden)
Located in New Orleans, LA
French Post-Impressionist painter Georges d’Espagnat captures a charming moment between a mother and her child in this vibrant oil on canvas. Rendered with a studied use of complementary colors and bold brushstrokes, the painting showcases the artist's unique Post-Impressionist style. Remembered as one of the most individualistic artists of the 20th century, his distinctive canvases bring together the loose brushwork of the Impressionists and the bold color palette favored by the Fauves. Together, they achieve a vibrant spontaneity that lends itself well to the carefree subjects of the present work.
Masterfully composed, La lecture au jardin moves beyond the Impressionist instinct to capture a fleeting moment on canvas. Rather, d'Espagnat succeeds in creating a deep feeling of harmony in the work. Warm colors are perfectly balanced with cool tones, while vertical and horizontal lines are softened by the curves of the foliage and his subjects' figures. Through his simplification of forms and intentional use of color and line, he creates a scene that is carefully designed and thoroughly modern. A similar view of a mother and her child by d'Espagnat is currently in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York).
The Post-Impressionist painter was an individualist since his youth, choosing to forgo traditional schooling in order to independently study the Old Masters in the Louvre. He soon became involved with the most prominent Impressionist and Post-Impressionist painters of the age, including Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Paul Signac, who themselves existed outside the traditional norms of French Academic training. In 1891, he exhibited at the Salon des Refusés, and again the following year at the Salon des Indépendants.
By 1895, he held his first one-man show in Paris, and just three years later his success earned him a solo show at the prestigious Durand-Ruel Gallery. Between 1905 and 1910 he made several trips to visit Renoir on the Côte d’Azur. Their close friendship resulted in a group exhibition at Marcel Bernheim...
Category
Late 19th Century Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
End of the Road, Golden Light Ladies Home Journal, Golden Age of Illustration
Located in Miami, FL
This sunbathed painting will light up your room with warmth. Sundblom's painting technique has the freedom and quick energy in his paint application. His subjects are bathed in the ...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Nude Dancer Burlesque Stripper with Purple Gloves - The Bump -
By Jack Levine
Located in Miami, FL
A gritty Burlesque Stripper with long purple gloves bumps and grinds with a hard-driving beat. American Social Realist artist Jack Levine paints this se...
Category
1970s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Oil, Board
Film Noir Curse of the Golden Cross Magazine - Golden Age of Illustration
Located in Miami, FL
Herbert Morton Stoops
American (1888 - 1948)
Curse of the Golden Cross
Magazine illustration, 1925
Oil on canvas
40 x 30 in.
Not signed
Work is framed
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Signed M. Maccari Post Impressionist Figurative Painting dated 1956 oil canvas
By Mino Maccari
Located in Florence, IT
The painting (oil on canvas, 44.5 x 35 cm; with wood frame 64 x 54,5 cm) represents a moment on deception.
It's signed Maccari on the bottom left, and it's dated 1956 and titled "ins...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Dimanche au Champ de Course (Deauville) (Sunday at the Racetrack)
Located in New Orleans, LA
Hugues Claude Pissarro
b.1935 French
Dimanche au champ de course (Deauville)
(Sunday at the Racetrack)
Signed “H. Claude Pissarro” (lower left)
Pastel on card
French artist Hugues Claude Pissarro offers a unique perspective of the racetrack in Deauville in this exceptional pastel. The spectators are as much his subject as the sport in this artistic tribute to a leisurely Sunday at the tracks. Following the impressionist tradition of his father and grandfather before him, Pissarro infuses this pastel with dynamic light and vibrant colors. Entitled Dimanche au Champ de Course (Deauville), it showcases the artist's highly distinctive and sophisticated style.
Hailing from a long lineage of painters, Pissarro's artistic talents were cultivated at an early age. He exhibited his first works at the young age of 14 and later studied in Paris at the École du Louvre and École Normale Supérieure. A 1959 White House commission to paint the portrait of President...
Category
20th Century Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Cardboard, Oil Pastel
Child in Prayer Cover of Good Housekeeping Magazine
Located in Miami, FL
Famed female illustrator Jessie Willcox Smith paints the " Ideal Child" in a spiritual moment for the Christmas cover of Good Housekeeping. The accompl...
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Mixed Media
Nude Girl, Polynesian Girl Tahiti, Annabella
Located in Miami, FL
In some instances, a painting will look significantly much better in person than it does digitize. This is one instance. In-person, this painting will knock your socks off. It is...
Category
1940s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Post- Impressionist Venetian Nude Painting the Bathing Nymphs Signed Seibezzi
Located in Rome, IT
“Bathing Nymphs,” Oil on Canvas cm 115×110 with frame cm 140×135 Fioravante Seibezzi (Venice, 1906-1974), Post-Impressionist Venetian painter, he devoted himself to landscape en plein air, translating the immediacy of impressionism through pure, bright colors. His debut at the Venice Biennale in 1938, participates in the Quadrennial Roman (1931, 1935, 1948, 1951, 1959) and several exhibitions abroad. He received important awards during his long career. In 2010 the exhibition “Settepittori Settemondi. Palazzo Carminati La Bohème “at the Maximilian Tower of St. Erasmus, Venice, sponsored by the Cultural Paolo Rizzi in collaboration with the Institution Lagoon Park – City of Venice. One hundred works from a single collector who chose Aldo Bergamini, Neno Mori, Marco Novati...
Category
20th Century Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Enfant dans un berceau
Located in Washington, DC
Signed with initials upper left
Category
Early 1900s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Ensemble
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Jean-Louis Mendrisse is a self-taught painter born in 1955 in Clermont-Ferrand.
Art, family affairs
Jean-Louis Mendrisse studied the deal with his famous sculptor father, Jean Mos...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Au bord de la riviere - Pointillist Figure in Landscape Oil by Joseph Lepine
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed divisionist oil on artist's panel landscape by French painter Joseph Louis Francois Lepine. The painting depicts a view of the River Seine on a bright summer's day. A boat sai...
Category
1920s Pointillist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Patrick Boudon. Inner Family. Post-war Expressionism. 1970s.
Located in Firenze, IT
Patrick Boudon.
Inner Family.
Post-war Expressionism.
1970s.
Patrick Boudon.
Art Informel. Ecole de Paris.
Technique: oil on cardboard.
This painting by Patrick Boudon from the 197...
Category
1970s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
On The Seine - Post Impressionist Landscape Oil by Albert Charles Lebourg
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed figures in riverscape oil on original canvas circa 1895 by French post impressionist painter Albert Charles Lebourg. The work depicts a v...
Category
1890s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Maternite - Post Impressionist Figurative Interior Oil Painting - Henri Lebasque
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed figurative oil on canvas circa 1910 by French post impressionist painter Henri Lebasque. The work depicts a mother seated on a yellow change feeding her young baby.
Signature...
Category
1910s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Fortitude
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Shipping Procedure
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Ships in a well-protected tube.
This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy.
Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity.
A di...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Children playing in the park Barcelona Spain oil on canvas painting
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Ignacio Gil Sala (1913-2003) - Barcelona - Oil on canvas
Oil measures 38x46 cm.
Frameless.
Ignacio Gil Sala, was a painter, bohemian character, adventurous and intrepid traveler who...
Category
1980s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Woman Reclining', Iran, Accademia di Belle Arti di Perugia, Miami
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Hessam' for Hessam Abrishami (Iranian, born 1951) and painted circa 2000.
Titled by artist, 'Quiet Moment'.
Paper dimensions: 22 H x 28 W inches
Hessam Abrisha...
Category
Early 2000s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Paper
Nude at the Window Overlooking Sacré-Coeur
Located in London, GB
'Nude at the Window Overlooking Sacré-Coeur', oil on paper mounted on canvas, by Louis Latapie (circa 1930s). Although later in Latapie's career he embraced cubism and abstraction, t...
Category
1930s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Paper, Canvas
"6.5 Koi 23" Bright Red & White Koi Swimming in Swirls of Blue Water with Green
By Linda Holt
Located in Wellesley, MA
"6.5 Koi 23" is a complex work of koi fish swimming underwater filled with light and brilliant color painted in a lush and fluid style bordering on abstraction. Fish are in shades...
Category
2010s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Waterfall 4" Sparkly White Waterfall, Bright Blue Water & Koi Swimming Below
By Linda Holt
Located in Wellesley, MA
"Waterfall 4" is a complex work of koi fish swimming underwater filled with light and brilliant color painted in a lush and fluid style bordering on abstraction. Fish are in shade...
Category
2010s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Modernist Mid century Swedish tram and figure scene in Fauvist colors
Located in Woodbury, CT
Acquiring a mid-20th-century Fauvist painting by Wilhelm Henning is an opportunity to own a piece of art that captures the vibrant spirit and expressive color palette of the Fauvist ...
Category
1950s Fauvist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"Portrait Boy" Oil Painting 14.5" x 20" inch (1930) by Shaaban Zaki
By Shaaban Zaki
Located in Culver City, CA
"Portrait Boy" Oil Painting 14.5" x 20" inch (1930) by Shaaban Zaki
signed & dated
Shaaban Zaki came from a lower-middle-class family who was mostly government employees, but he wa...
Category
20th Century Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"Iva" Oil Painting 39" x 39" inch by Andrey Remnev
Located in Culver City, CA
"Iva" Oil Painting 39" x 39" inch by Andrey Remnev
ARTIST BIO:
"My birth place is Yakhroma town, in the vicinity of Moscow. It is situated on high hills, from where broad Bruegelian vistas are open. The uneven terrain with significant differences of high and low; a canal between the Moskva river and the Volga; small rivers, woods and villages; a nearby ancient town of Dmitrov, which is equal to Moscow in age; ships cruising the canal and trains outdistancing them – all this I saw from my window since my early years. It was a view that embraced all the diversity of the world. This is why I can say that the impressions of my childhood and youth – beautiful nature and remarkable people – are the most important ones.
In the museum of Moscow's St. Andronic Monastery I copied the best examples of the old Russian painting...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"Twins" Oil Painting 35" x 24" inch by Sergey Dolmatov
Located in Culver City, CA
"Twins" Oil Painting 35" x 24" inch by Sergey Dolmatov
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Sunflowers"summer, yellow, oil cm. 115 x 105
Located in Torino, IT
Sunflowers, summer, yellow, van gogh,Ukraine
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Georgij MOROZ (Dneprodzerzinsk, Ucraina, 1937 - St. Petersburg, 2015)
1937: he was born in Dneprodzerzinsk, Ucraina....
Category
Early 2000s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
France beach acrylic painting seascape
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Acrylic on paper laid board.
Frameless.
Category
1990s Fauvist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Laid Paper, Board, Acrylic
Dance Moves, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
The painting captures a lively scene where a group of people dances joyfully, lost in the music with closed eyes. Their vibrant clothing and fluid movements inf...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Woman and guitar oil on board painting fauvism
By Jordi Curos
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Jordi Curós Ventura (1930-2007) - Woman - Oil on board.
Work measurements 46x38 cm.
Frame size 64x56 cm.
Jordi Curós Ventura (Olot, Girona, March 4, 1930) is a Spanish painter.
He ...
Category
1980s Fauvist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
The Yellow Bouquet seated female figure with flowers soft yellow and pink
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Seated woman in a pink suit strong yet warm color consistent with the artist's palette. It is painted on jute a coarse type of burlap mounted on a cradled wood board . Framing recomm...
Category
2010s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil, Jute
India Oil on Canvas South Jungle 1920's Signed Listed Artist Green Blue Rainbow
Located in Norfolk, GB
Jaroslav Hněvkovský (1884-1956) Czechoslovakian
India
oil on canvas
framed 71.5 X 62cm, image 58.5 x 48.5 cm
c 1920
Signed and titled India, bottom left
Provenance private UK c...
Category
Early 20th Century Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Spanish market oil on canvas painting fauvism
By Jordi Curos
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Jordi Curós Ventura (1930-2007) - Market - Oil on canvas.
Work measurements 46x55 cm.
Frame size 51x60 cm.
Jordi Curós Ventura (Olot, Girona, March 4, 1930) is a Spanish painter.
H...
Category
1970s Fauvist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Woman on the balcony oil on canvas painting spanish
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Rafael Duran Benet (1931-2015) - Woman - Oil on canvas
Oil measurements 92x65 cm.
Frameless.
Rafael Duran Benet (Terrassa, 1931 - Barcelona, 2015) is a Catalan painter, nephew of th...
Category
1980s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"Fools", Harlequin Jester Twins, Carved Paper Relief Painting in Primary Colors
By Martin Ingley
Located in Soquel, CA
Whimsical textured relief painting of two stylized twin jesters in primary colors, their long mask-like faces created with the technique of hand carving layers of laminated paper board and painting with acrylic, by contemporary English artist Martin Ingley...
Category
Late 20th Century Fauvist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic Polymer, Acrylic, Illustration Board
A. J. Bennett - Light and Shade - Post Impressionist Painting, South Africa 1919
Located in Meinisberg, CH
A. J. Bennett
(South African, fl. Early 20th century)
Light and Shade
• Oil on canvas artist board ca. 42.5 x 29.5 cm
• Later frame ca. 53.5 x 41 cm
Worldwide shipping is complime...
Category
1910s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
Figurative Acrylic Canvas Painting American
Located in Buffalo, NY
One of a kind acrylic expressionist canvas painting by Linda Coppola.
Category
2010s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Figurative Acrylic Canvas Painting American
Located in Buffalo, NY
One of a kind acrylic expressionist canvas painting by Linda Coppola.
Category
2010s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Figurative Acrylic Canvas Painting American
Located in Buffalo, NY
One of a kind acrylic expressionist canvas painting by Linda Coppola. The figures have multiple forms. Are they human, or are they rabbit?
Category
2010s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Crowning Glory (Beauty Within Us)
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Shipping Procedure
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This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy.
Accompanied by a Certificate of Authent...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Blooming Grace
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Shipping Procedure
FREE Shipping Worldwide
Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria
This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy.
Accompanied by a Certificate of Authent...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Hugó Scheiber Pastel "Sailing", about 1930
Located in Berlin, DE
Pastel and carbon pencil on cardboard, ca. 1930 by Hugo Scheiber. Signed lower left: Scheiber H.
Dimensions: 14.96 x 12.99 in ( 38 x 33 cm ), Framed: 19.69 x 15.75 in ( 50 x 40 cm )
...
Category
Early 20th Century Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Cardboard, Carbon Pencil
'Woman with Cello', Iran, Accademia di Belle Arti di Perugia, Miami
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'Hessam' for Hessam Abrishami (Iranian, born 1951) and painted circa 2000.
Titled by artist, 'Color Me Music'.
Paper dimensions: 28 x 21.75 inches.
Hessam Abrisha...
Category
Early 2000s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Laid Paper
Rhetoric 2
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Shipping Procedure
FREE Shipping Worldwide
Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria
This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy.
Accompanied by a Certificate of Authent...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Man 29 original figurative drawing painting
By A. Costa
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
Man. original figurative drawing painting. virtual frame
Barcelona, 1904 - Barcelona, 1965
It was formed in Buenos Aires, in the Circle of San Lucas of Barcelona and the FAD.
He wa...
Category
1960s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Carbon Pencil
Coll Bardolet 24 Bolero Mallorquin original expressionist watercolor painting
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
Bolero Mallorquin original expressionist watercolor painting.
virtual frame
Spanish painter maximum representative of the art of Mallorca at the end of the 20th century. Costumbrista...
Category
1990s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Fragment 10 (dreamy woman back skin female figurative painting soft Earth tones)
By Rudolf Kosow
Located in Quebec, Quebec
"Fragment" by Rudolf Kosow is a deeply introspective miniature painting on wood that subtly plays with shadow and light to evoke a sense of hidden depths within the human form. This ...
Category
2010s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic, Wood Panel
Fragment 9 (dreamy woman back skin female figurative painting soft Earth tones)
By Rudolf Kosow
Located in Quebec, Quebec
"Fragment 9" by Rudolf Kosow is a striking miniature painting that employs a minimalist yet impactful use of color and form to convey deep emotional and psychological states. The art...
Category
2010s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic, Wood Panel
Fragment 8 (dreamy woman back skin female figurative painting soft Earth tones)
By Rudolf Kosow
Located in Quebec, Quebec
"Fragment 8" by Rudolf Kosow is an evocative miniature painting on wood, capturing the elusive nature of human memory and emotion through abstract forms and subtle colors. This artwo...
Category
2010s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas, Acrylic, Wood Panel
Fragment 7 (dreamy woman neck skin female figurative painting soft Earth tones)
By Rudolf Kosow
Located in Quebec, Quebec
"Fragment 7" by Rudolf Kosow is a deeply evocative miniature painting on wood that portrays the subtle details of a human profile with a focus on the neck and shoulder. The artwork's...
Category
2010s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic, Wood Panel
Woman with Red Hair
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Baron Robert Heinrich Freiherr von Doblhoff (1880 Vienna - 1960 ibid.)
Woman with Red Hair
Ink and watercolor on paper, image measures 6.25 x 7.25 inches; 12.75 x 13.5 inches fra...
Category
Early 20th Century Vienna Secession Figurative Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
La Rochelle France mixed media painting urbanscape
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Emilio Grau Sala (1911-1975) - La Rochelle - Mixed media
Artwork 49x65 cm.
Frame measures 69x85 cm.
Son of cartoonist Juan Grau Miró, he was born in Barcelona in 1911. Although he a...
Category
1950s Fauvist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Andre Derain 94 Sketch of Faces. original pencil drawing painting
By André Derain
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
profile face. original pencil drawing painting
André Derain (Chatou, June 10, 1880-Garches, September 8, 1954) was a French painter, illustrator and set designer, representative of ...
Category
1920s Fauvist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Figurative Paintings for Sale
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