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A woman stands looking at Frida Kahlo's painting El sueno (La cama), which shows a figure lying in bed with a skeleton and flowers above the canopy, displayed in a gallery setting. A cameraman films Georgia O'Keeffe's 1932 painting Jimson Weed/White Flower No.1, which features a large white flower with green leaves against a blue background, displayed in a gold frame. A woman photographs Frida Kahlo's framed self-portrait Diego y yo, displayed on a dark wall at Sotheby's exhibition in New York City. Louise Bourgeois: Spider Joan Mitchell: Untitled Two art handlers wearing white gloves hold the framed painting Les Distractions de Dagobert by Leonora Carrington, featuring surreal, colorful figures and dreamlike landscapes. A person stands in silhouette facing Joan Mitchell's abstract painting Sunflowers, which features bold, colorful brushstrokes, on display at Sotheby's auction house.
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Frida Kahlo: El sueño (La cama) (1940; The Dream [The Bed])
A woman viewing El sueño (La cama) (The Dream [The Bed]), painting...
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Georgia O'Keeffe: Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1
Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1, oil on canvas by Georgia O'Keeffe, 1932;...
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Frida Kahlo: Diego y yo
A woman taking a photo on her phone of Diego y yo, oil on Masonite by Frida...
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Louise Bourgeois: Spider
An art handler looking at Spider, the first cast in an edition of six bronze...
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Joan Mitchell: Untitled
Untitled, oil on canvas by Joan Mitchell, c. 1959; at Christie's in New...
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Leonora Carrington: Les distractions de Dagobert
Art handlers holding Les distractions de Dagobert, tempera on Masonite by...
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Joan Mitchell: Sunflowers
A visitor to Sotheby's, New York City, viewing Sunflowers, oil on two canvases...
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