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Pablo Picasso, Reclining Woman and a Woman Washing Her Feet, 1941

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David Hockney, Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy, 1970–71 via Wikipedia/Public Domain

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Joan Miró, Landscape (The Hare) (Paysage [Le lièvre]), 1927

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Louise Bourgeois, Blue Is The Color of Your Eyes, 2008 via elephant.art

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Edward Hopper, Two Comedians, 1966 via Sotheby's

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Florine Stettheimer, Asbury Park South, 1920 via Artforum

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Roberto Matta, Untitled, 1942-3, ©Roberto Matta. ADAGP, Paris / VEGAP, Madrid © Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid via Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza

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Jackson Pollock, Guardians of the Secret, 1943, © Pollock-Krasner Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York via SFMOMA

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Thomas Hart Benton, Fire in the Barnyard, 1944 via Sotheby’s

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MoMA staff dismantling Pablo Picasso’s Guernica (1937) prior to its shipment to Spain, 1981 via MoMA.

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Joan Miró painting Bleu II, 1961. Photograph by Català Roca.

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Henri Matisse, Interior (Open Door), 1920 via Artchive

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Paul Cézanne, The Basket of Apples, c. 1893 via Wikipedia/Public Domain

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Paul Gauguin, Parahi te Marae (The Sacred Mountain), 1892 via WikiArt/Public Domain

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Helen Frankenthaler, Landscape (Nice, France), 1956 via The Helen Frankenthaler Foundation

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View of the Pavillon de l’Alma in Meudon around December 1906. Photo by François Vizzavona, Musée Rodin via Tate

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Salvador Dalí, The Persistence of Memory, 1931. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. © 2025 Salvador Dalí, Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York via MoMA

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Leonora Carrington, And Then We Saw the Daughter of the Minotaur, 1953 via MoMA

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William Shiels, A Cheviot Lamb (from Attonburn, Roxburghshire). via WikiArt/Public Domain

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