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Art Work > Paintings > 1960s > Black Bend

tall rectangular black canvas with a mauve colored round shape pushing in from the bottom, and also a bright red more squared off shape barely showing from the top.

Black Bend, 1960

Oil on canvas
68 x 86 in.

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