Modern Art
MODERN STYLE
The first decades of the 20th century were a period of artistic upheaval, with modern art movements including Cubism, Surrealism, Futurism and Dadaism questioning centuries of traditional views of what art should be. Using abstraction, experimental forms and interdisciplinary techniques, painters, sculptors, photographers, printmakers and performance artists all pushed the boundaries of creative expression.
Major exhibitions, like the 1913 Armory Show in New York City — also known as the “International Exhibition of Modern Art,” in which works like the radically angular Nude Descending a Staircase by Marcel Duchamp caused a sensation — challenged the perspective of viewers and critics and heralded the arrival of modern art in the United States. But the movement’s revolutionary spirit took shape in the 19th century.
The Industrial Revolution, which ushered in new technology and cultural conditions across the world, transformed art from something mostly commissioned by the wealthy or the church to work that responded to personal experiences. The Impressionist style emerged in 1860s France with artists like Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne and Edgar Degas quickly painting works that captured moments of light and urban life. Around the same time in England, the Pre-Raphaelites, like Edward Burne-Jones and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, borrowed from late medieval and early Renaissance art to imbue their art with symbolism and modern ideas of beauty.
Emerging from this disruption of the artistic status quo, modern art went further in rejecting conventions and embracing innovation. The bold legacy of leading modern artists Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, Frida Kahlo, Salvador Dalí, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Marc Chagall, Piet Mondrian and many others continues to inform visual culture today.
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Style: Modern
Period: 1940s
Moore, Standing and Seated Figures, The Drawings of Henry Moore (after)
By Henry Moore
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on wove paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, The Drawings of Henry Moore, 1946. Published by Curt Vale...
Category
1940s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Picasso, étudier for céramique, Céramiques de Picasso (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Collotype and Lithograph on archival gloss finish paper (to resemble the finish of ceramic), archivally hinged on wove paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; nev...
Category
1940s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Antique American School Modernist Hamptons New York Sandy Path Rare Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Oil on canvas. Framed. Image size, 18H x 24L.
Category
1940s Modern Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Moore, Reclining Figures, The Drawings of Henry Moore (after)
By Henry Moore
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on wove paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, The Drawings of Henry Moore, 1946. Published by Curt Vale...
Category
1940s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Moore, Family Group, The Drawings of Henry Moore (after)
By Henry Moore
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on wove paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, The Drawings of Henry Moore, 1946. Published by Curt Vale...
Category
1940s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Picasso, Family at Supper, Picasso: Fifteen Drawings (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on wove paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Picasso: Fifteen Drawings, 1946. Published by Pantheon B...
Category
1940s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Picasso, Head of a Woman, Picasso: Fifteen Drawings (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on wove paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Picasso: Fifteen Drawings, 1946. Published by Pantheon B...
Category
1940s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Moore, Page from Sketchbook, The Drawings of Henry Moore (after)
By Henry Moore
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on wove paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, The Drawings of Henry Moore, 1946. Published by Curt Vale...
Category
1940s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Picasso, Man with Pipe, Picasso: Fifteen Drawings (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on wove paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Picasso: Fifteen Drawings, 1946. Published by Pantheon B...
Category
1940s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Moore, Two Sleeping Shelterers, The Drawings of Henry Moore (after)
By Henry Moore
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on wove paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, The Drawings of Henry Moore, 1946. Published by Curt Vale...
Category
1940s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Picasso, The Basket, Picasso: Fifteen Drawings (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on wove paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Picasso: Fifteen Drawings, 1946. Published by Pantheon B...
Category
1940s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Moore, Seated Figures, The Drawings of Henry Moore (after)
By Henry Moore
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on wove paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, The Drawings of Henry Moore, 1946. Published by Curt Vale...
Category
1940s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Moore, Wood Sculpture in Setting of Rocks, The Drawings of Henry Moore (after)
By Henry Moore
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on wove paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, The Drawings of Henry Moore, 1946. Published by Curt Vale...
Category
1940s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Picasso, étudier for céramique, Céramiques de Picasso (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Collotype and Lithograph on archival gloss finish paper (to resemble the finish of ceramic), archivally hinged on wove paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; nev...
Category
1940s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Moore, Seated Figures, The Drawings of Henry Moore (after)
By Henry Moore
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on wove paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, The Drawings of Henry Moore, 1946. Published by Curt Vale...
Category
1940s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Moore, Standing Figures, The Drawings of Henry Moore (after)
By Henry Moore
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on wove paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, The Drawings of Henry Moore, 1946. Published by Curt Vale...
Category
1940s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Moore, Studies of Miners at Work, The Drawings of Henry Moore (after)
By Henry Moore
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on wove paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, The Drawings of Henry Moore, 1946. Published by Curt Vale...
Category
1940s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Moore, Page from a Notebook, The Drawings of Henry Moore (after)
By Henry Moore
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on wove paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, The Drawings of Henry Moore, 1946. Published by Curt Vale...
Category
1940s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Moore, Three Figures in a Setting, The Drawings of Henry Moore (after)
By Henry Moore
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on wove paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, The Drawings of Henry Moore, 1946. Published by Curt Vale...
Category
1940s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Moore, Hair Combing, The Drawings of Henry Moore (after)
By Henry Moore
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on wove paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, The Drawings of Henry Moore, 1946. Published by Curt Vale...
Category
1940s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
The Dancer, School Prints, Henri Matisse
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Edition Lithograph on English cartridge paper. Edition: 3,000. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered. Excellent Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: Published...
Category
1940s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Moore, Family Groups, The Drawings of Henry Moore (after)
By Henry Moore
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on wove paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, The Drawings of Henry Moore, 1946. Published by Curt Vale...
Category
1940s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Moore, Studies for Family Group, The Drawings of Henry Moore (after)
By Henry Moore
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on wove paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, The Drawings of Henry Moore, 1946. Published by Curt Vale...
Category
1940s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Moore, Figures against a Background, The Drawings of Henry Moore (after)
By Henry Moore
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on wove paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, The Drawings of Henry Moore, 1946. Published by Curt Vale...
Category
1940s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Moore, Women Winding Wool, The Drawings of Henry Moore (after)
By Henry Moore
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on wove paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, The Drawings of Henry Moore, 1946. Published by Curt Vale...
Category
1940s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Picasso, étudier for céramique, Céramiques de Picasso (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Collotype and Lithograph on archival gloss finish paper (to resemble the finish of ceramic), archivally hinged on wove paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; nev...
Category
1940s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Picasso, étudier for céramique, Céramiques de Picasso (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Collotype and Lithograph on archival gloss finish paper (to resemble the finish of ceramic), archivally hinged on wove paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; nev...
Category
1940s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Picasso, Saltimbanque, Picasso: Fifteen Drawings (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on wove paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Picasso: Fifteen Drawings, 1946. Published by Pantheon B...
Category
1940s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Moore, Drawing for Sculpture, The Drawings of Henry Moore (after)
By Henry Moore
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on wove paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, The Drawings of Henry Moore, 1946. Published by Curt Vale...
Category
1940s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Lapicque, La mariee de banlieue, Galerie Louis Carré (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on wove paper. Edition: 700. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered. Excellent Condition. Notes: From the volume, Bazaine. Estève. Lapique. Published by Galerie L...
Category
1940s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Moore, Group of Draped Standing Figures, The Drawings of Henry Moore (after)
By Henry Moore
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on wove paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, The Drawings of Henry Moore, 1946. Published by Curt Vale...
Category
1940s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Moore, Sketches for Sculpture, The Drawings of Henry Moore (after)
By Henry Moore
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on wove paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, The Drawings of Henry Moore, 1946. Published by Curt Vale...
Category
1940s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Moore, Reclining Figure, The Drawings of Henry Moore (after)
By Henry Moore
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on wove paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, The Drawings of Henry Moore, 1946. Published by Curt Vale...
Category
1940s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Picasso, étudier for céramique, Céramiques de Picasso (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Collotype and Lithograph on archival gloss finish paper (to resemble the finish of ceramic), archivally hinged on wove paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; nev...
Category
1940s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Picasso, étudier for céramique, Céramiques de Picasso (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Collotype and Lithograph on archival gloss finish paper (to resemble the finish of ceramic), archivally hinged on wove paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; nev...
Category
1940s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Montego Bay Fishermen 1940s Toni Frissell Limited Signature Stamped Edition
Located in London, GB
Montego Bay Fishermen 1940s Toni Frissell Limited Signature Stamped Edition
Fishermen at work on a beach in Montego Bay Jamaica circa 1940.
by Toni Frissell
40 x 40" inches / 101 ...
Category
1940s Modern Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Early Modern American Portrait, Pennsylvania/Massachusetts, Frank Anderson Trapp
Located in Baltimore, MD
This is a very stylized and powerful portrait by the noted artist Frank Anderson Trapp. It is dated 1940, and is very much in the modern style of French painters Ferdinand Leger and...
Category
1940s Modern Art
Materials
Oil
Klee, Queen of Hearts, Prints of Paul Klee (after)
By Paul Klee
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Limited Edition Etching on vellum paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered. Edition: 2,000. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Prints of Paul Klee, 1947. Published by...
Category
1940s Modern Art
Materials
Etching
Antique American School Modernist Flower Still Life Framed Vintage Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Oil on canvas. Framed.
Category
1940s Modern Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Fougasse' Careless Talk Costs Lives Cyril Kenneth Bird World War 2 poster
Located in London, GB
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1940s Modern Art
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Lithograph
Picasso, La Petite Colombe (Mourlot 174; Cramer 55) (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Edition Lithograph on wove paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: Executed in 1949 and issued as the frontispiece of the P...
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1940s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Modernist Judaica Jewish Ink Drawing Painting "New Immigrant" Off the Boat WPA
Located in Surfside, FL
An ink drawing Judaic painting by modern artist Ben-Zion Weinman. It depicts a portrait of an old Jewish man. Coming over from Europe on a ship crossing. The work is signed "Ben-Zion".
Born in 1897, Ben-Zion Weinman celebrated his European Jewish heritage in his visual works as a sculptor, painter, and printmaker. Influenced by Spinoza, Knut Hamsun, and Wladyslaw Reymont, as well as Hebrew literature, Ben-Zion wrote poetry and essays that, like his visual work, attempt to reveal the deep “connection between man and the divine, and between man and earth.”
An emigrant from the Ukraine, he came to the US in 1920. He wrote fairy tales and poems in Hebrew under the name Benzion Weinman, but when he began painting he dropped his last name and hyphenated his first, saying an artist needed only one name. In 1920 he settled in America, where he found little interest in his writing. He began teaching Hebrew to support himself and then in the early 1930s returned to painting. He used his art to comment on the rise of fascism in Europe, events he felt could not be adequately explored with words. Largely self-taught, Ben-Zion visited the museums of New York City to learn his new trade. His first painting on a large scale, Friday Evening (1933, Jewish Museum, New York), depicts a Sabbath dinner table as recalled from his family home. Ben-Zion supported himself by working odd jobs until the establishment of the Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project. Under the auspices of the wpa, Ben-Zion thrived and galleries began to show his work. In 1936, after his first one-man show at the Artists' Gallery in New York
Ben-Zion was a founding member of “The Ten: An Independent Group” The Ten” a 1930’s...
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1940s Modern Art
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
'African Idol' — 1930s American Modernism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Robert Vale Faro, untitled (African Idol), serigraph, c. 1940, edition 6. Signed in pencil. A fine impression, with fresh colors, on buff wove paper; the full sheet with margins(5/8 ...
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1940s Modern Art
Materials
Screen
Surrealist Still Life with Apples, Mid 20th Century Cleveland School Artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000)
Still Life with Apples, 1940
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated upper right
18 x 24 inches
Clarence Holbrook Carter achieved a level of na...
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1940s Modern Art
Materials
Oil
Bonnard, Coucher de soleil sur la Méditerranée, Verve: Revue Artistique (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin du Marais paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered. Good condition; with centerfold, as issued. Notes: From the volume, Verve: Revue Artistique et Littéraire, ...
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1940s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Klee, Tightrope Walker, Prints of Paul Klee (after)
By Paul Klee
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Etching on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Prints of Paul Klee, 1945. Published by the Museum of Modern Art, New York and Cu...
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1940s Modern Art
Materials
Etching
Léger, Composition, Derrière le miroir (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on wove paper. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered; text on verso, as issued. Good Condition; with centerfold, as issued. Notes: From Derrière le miroir, N° 20...
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1940s Modern Art
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Lithograph
Antique American School Modernist Landscape Framed Mid Century Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Oil on canvas. Framed.
Category
1940s Modern Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Fougasse' Careless Talk Costs Lives Cyril Kenneth Bird World War 2 poster
Located in London, GB
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Cyril Kenneth Bird ‘Fougasse’ (1887 - 1965)
Careless Talk Costs Lives (circa 1940)
Lithographic poster
32 x 20 cm (12.5 x 8 in)
Version printed on thicker paper.
"But of course it mustn't go any further" - in the luggage compartments...
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1940s Modern Art
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Lithograph
Estève, La mariee de banlieue, Galerie Louis Carré (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on wove paper. Edition: 700. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered. Excellent Condition. Notes: From the volume, Bazaine. Estève. Lapique. Published by Galerie L...
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1940s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
'Fougasse' Careless Talk Costs Lives Cyril Kenneth Bird World War 2 poster
Located in London, GB
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1940s Modern Art
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Lithograph
Klee, A Man Sinking Before the Crown, Prints of Paul Klee (after)
By Paul Klee
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Limited Edition Etching on vellum paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered. Edition: 2,000. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Prints of Paul Klee, 1947. Published by...
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1940s Modern Art
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Etching
Klee, Menacing Head, Prints of Paul Klee (after)
By Paul Klee
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Limited Edition Etching on vellum paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered. Edition: 2,000. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Prints of Paul Klee, 1947. Published by...
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1940s Modern Art
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Etching
Klee, Garden of Passion, Prints of Paul Klee (after)
By Paul Klee
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Limited Edition Etching on vellum paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered. Edition: 2,000. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Prints of Paul Klee, 1947. Published by...
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1940s Modern Art
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Etching
'Taxco, Mexico', Paris, Louvre, Who Was Who in American Art, PAFA, AIC
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Charles Killgore' (American, 1889-1979) and painted circa 1940. (N.B. the artist's last name variant is 'Kilgore).
Born in Huntington, West Virginia, Charles Ki...
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1940s Modern Art
Materials
Fiberboard, Oil
Klee, The Hero with the Wing, Prints of Paul Klee (after)
By Paul Klee
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Limited Edition Etching on vellum paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered. Edition: 2,000. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Prints of Paul Klee, 1947. Published by...
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1940s Modern Art
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Etching
Antique American School Modernist Abstract Expressionist Framed MCM Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Oil on board Framed.
Category
1940s Modern Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Klee, Two Men Meet, Each Believing the Other to Be of Higher Rank (after)
By Paul Klee
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original Limited Edition Etching on vellum paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered. Edition: 2,000. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Prints of Paul Klee, 1947. Published by...
Category
1940s Modern Art
Materials
Etching
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