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    One of her best-known paintings, Quadriga (1935), was among those selected for exhibition. Inspired by a photograph of a horse’s head from the Parthenon, Agar repeated and transformed the image four times on a canvas, provoking a connection with the four horses associated with the Apocalypse. Another of her significant…

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    One of her best-known paintings, Quadriga (1935), was among those selected for exhibition. Inspired by a photograph of a horse’s head from the Parthenon, Agar repeated and transformed the image four times on a canvas, provoking a connection with the four horses associated with the Apocalypse. Another of her significant…

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