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Six Reclining Figures in Black, Henry Moore, 1963

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Otto Piene

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Ellsworth Kelly 

 Yellow (II.2 Yellow; Jaune Série II No.2) From Suite of Twenty-Seven Color Lithographs, 1964–5 

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Peter Shear

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Henning Bohl

o.T.iv, 2009

Paper on primed canvas, wood roll

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Wolfgang Voegele-Untitled. Oil on canvas. 190 x150 cm. 2017

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Henri Matisse https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/1429

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Nenad Bacanovic

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Patricia Treib

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GERHARD RICHTER 

 Graues Bild I, 1971

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amelioration process

4.75x7.25" handmade collage. www.argyleplaids.com

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Mark Rothko, Untitled, 1968

(nice new, more detailed scan)

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Untitled, 2004-Pierrette Bloch

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Ronan Bouroullec

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Sophie Taeuber Forme bleue / Blue shape Gouache sur papier / Gouache on paper 31.9 x 25.8 cm 1935

(plus de / more by Sophie Taeuber)

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Elijah Burgher at Western Exhibitions in Chicago