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David Bierk

David Charles Bierk RCA was an American-Canadian realist painter. During the year that he lived in Toronto, Bierk immersed himself in the local cultural scene, which he described as exploratory. Then he moved to Peterborough, Ontario in 1972 to take up a teaching position at Kenner Collegiate Vocational Institute, and later at Fleming College. Along with poet Dennis Tourbin, Bierk founded and directed Artspace between 1974 and 1987, which was one of Canada's earliest artist operated art centers. Bierk's early painting drew on sources such as diverse as American West Coast Pop and Photo Realism. In Canada, he expanded his West Coast Pop into Canadian images as well as painting a Canadian Rock series, and a multiple fold painting series. In the early 1980s, he began his Repaintings, quoting from famous artists of the past. His solo shows included exhibitions at Artspace, Peterborough (1976), the Art Gallery of Peterborough (1981–1983), and Museum London (1983). The travelling exhibition After History: The Paintings of David Bierck organized by the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Alabama in 2002 toured in Canada. His group exhibitions were extensive.
Creator Id: 67
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Country of Birth: USA
Province of Birth: Minnesota
Year of Birth: 1944
City: Peterborough
Country: Canada
Type of Creator: Artist
Ending Year: 2002
Gender: Male
Living Status: Deceased
Mediums: painting
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Work by David Bierk

American Youth Series, Sports

Work ID: 1380

Measurements: 243.84 x 121.92 cm

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Self-Portrait

Work ID: 1381

Measurements: diameter: 182.88 cm

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In Search of the American Dream

Work ID: 1382

Measurements: 731.52 x 487.68 cm

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Hockey Night in Canada

Work ID: 1384

Measurements: 171.45 x 212.725 cm

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Venus de Silo, A Proposed Canadian Monument

Work ID: 1386

Measurements: 121.92 x 182.88 cm

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Laundromat, Canadian Interior

Work ID: 1385

Measurements: 152.4 x 213.36 cm

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Canadian Rock Series: Hwy 7 Near Innisville

Work ID: 1387

Measurements: 243.84 x 365.76 cm

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It’s Just a Matter of Taste, Eh?

Work ID: 1388

Measurements: 213.36 x 457.2 cm

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The Fold Series “1981”

Work ID: 1389

Measurements: 0.8352 x 1.2528 m

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Eastern Townships, Quebec

Work ID: 1390

Measurements: 157.48 x 167.64 cm

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Art in America

Work ID: 1396

Measurements: 53.34 x 127 cm

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From the Last Flowers of Manet, Oeillets et Clematites dans un Vase de Cristal

Work ID: 1398

Measurements: 55.88 x 34.925 cm

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Aurora

Work ID: 1393

Measurements: 91.44 x 152.4 cm

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Alexander

Work ID: 1394

Measurements: 22.86 x 22.86 cm

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Autumn

Work ID: 1395

Measurements: 139.7 x 215.9 cm

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Flash Art Triptych

Work ID: 1397

Measurements: 116.84 x 212.09 cm

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British Columbia Morn / Purple Sky

Work ID: 1391

Measurements: 177.8 x 224.79 cm

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Save the Planet Aurora, To Michaelangelo

Work ID: 1392

Measurements: 139.7 x 177.8 cm

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Fleurs dans un Vase

Work ID: 1399

Measurements: 59.69 x 39.37 cm

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Art, Object, Commodity

Work ID: 1409

Measurements: 317.5 x 302.26 cm

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Art in America: Dec ’87 & Mar ’88

Work ID: 1408

Measurements: 142.24 x 236.22 cm

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Autumn Light, to Inness & Vermeer

Work ID: 1401

Measurements: 149.86 x 299.72 cm

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Paradise Lost 2, to Michaelangelo, Kensett, Cole, Sarasov & Gauguin

Work ID: 1403

Measurements: 243.84 x 274.32 cm

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Paradise Lost #1

Work ID: 1402

Measurements: 243.84 x 274.32 cm

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The Cover Series: A History

Work ID: 1405

Measurements: 83.82 x 462.28 cm

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The Cover Series: A History (detail)

Work ID: 1407

Measurements: each: 83.82 x 60.96 cm

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The Last Flowers of Manet

Work ID: 1404

Measurements: 60.96 x 243.84 cm

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Art Object, Commodity (detail)

Work ID: 2423

Measurements: 317.5 x 302.26 cm

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Untitled, to Vermeer and Heade

Work ID: 1400

Measurements: 182.88 x 368.3 cm

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Art News, Oct ’78, to Beuys & Manet

Work ID: 1413

Measurements: 114.3 x 154.94 cm

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Olana Pond / Twilight

Work ID: 1419

Measurements: 71.12 x 127 cm

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Save the Planet, Autumn Sunset / to K. & C.

Work ID: 1417

Measurements: 152.4 x 312.42 cm

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Installation view, Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto

Work ID: 1416

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Portrait of a Father/Daughter, to the Bwami Tribe, Degas and Freud

Work ID: 1414

Measurements: 137.16 x 337.82 cm

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St. Alban’s Dusk, to Leonardo

Work ID: 1412

Measurements: 85.852 x 168.275 cm

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Save the Planet, Autumn Sunset, to Keith & Caravaggio

Work ID: 1411

Measurements: 152.4 x 312.42 cm

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To Manet & Vermeer

Work ID: 1418

Measurements: 113.03 x 177.8 cm

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Save the Planet, The Heroic Captives

Work ID: 1415

Measurements: 238.76 x 416.56 cm

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Art in America Triptych

Work ID: 1410

Measurements: each: 83.82 x 66.04 cm

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In the Absence of Virtue III, to David

Work ID: 2422

Measurements: 142.24 x 292.735 cm

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Systematic Destruction, to Constable & della Francesca

Work ID: 1429

Measurements: 121.92 x 215.9 cm

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John Biglin in a Single Scull, Roses dans un Vase de Verre, to Eakins and Manet

Work ID: 1428

Measurements: 113.03 x 170.18 cm

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Melancholy I, to de la Tour & Manet

Work ID: 1420

Measurements: 111.76 x 182.88 cm

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A Distant Light, to Monet, Seine River

Work ID: 1421

Measurements: each: 60.96 x 66.04 cm

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The Noble Woman, to Gauguin, de Chirico & Manet

Work ID: 1432

Measurements: 172.72 x 421.64 cm

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A Eulogy to Art, David Watching, to Fantin Latour

Work ID: 1423

Measurements: 119.38 x 236.22 cm

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Time

Work ID: 1422

Measurements: 96.52 x 205.74 cm

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After Ryder: The Toilers of the Sea

Work ID: 2424

Measurements: 67.945 x 72.39 cm

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Bouquet de Julienne et Fruits (White Rockets and Fruit to Fantin-Latour and de Chirico

Work ID: 1431

Measurements: 170.815 x 358.775 cm

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Absence of Virtue, Art in America, May 1990, to David & Manet

Work ID: 1425

Measurements: 114.3 x 187.96 cm

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Artist in his Studio, to Manet & Vermeer

Work ID: 1424

Measurements: 182.245 x 267.335 cm

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Testa di Adamo, to Michaelangelo & Manet

Work ID: 1434

Measurements: 91.44 x 137.16 cm

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Olana Pond Study, to Church

Work ID: 1437

Measurements: 50.8 x 72.39 cm

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Summer Storm, Radium Rain

Work ID: 1436

Measurements: 78.74 x 95.25 cm

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Slave to the Grind (Skid Row Album Cover)

Work ID: 1433

Measurements: 182.88 x 487.68 cm

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In the Absence of Paradise: to Church & Vermeer

Work ID: 1435

Measurements: 0.8352 x 0.7656 m

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A Eulogy to Art, Interior (Le Viol), to Degas & Fantin-Latour

Work ID: 1439

Measurements: 205.74 x 379.73 cm

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A Eulogy to Art (Rape of the Planet) to Church & de Chirico

Work ID: 1441

Measurements: 205.74 x 379.73 cm

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A Eulogy to Family & Ryder

Work ID: 2420

Measurements: 73.66 x 154.94 cm

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A Eulogy / Flashart to Mondrian

Work ID: 1438

Measurements: 81.28 x 127 cm

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A Eulogy to Zurbaran

Work ID: 1444

Measurements: 113.03 x 118.11 cm

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A Eulogy to Art: David Bierk’s Olana Pond (To Church) in the Temporary Contemporary

Work ID: 2421

Measurements: 19.05 x 54.61 cm

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A Eulogy to Art, (La Ville Louvre), to Manet

Work ID: 1443

Measurements: 55.88 x 129.54 cm

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A Eulogy to Earth (Systematic Destruction) Ancient Pond (History)

Work ID: 224

Measurements: 127 x 127 cm

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Approaching the 21st Century / An Allegory of Balances, to Mantegno & Lorrain

Work ID: 1445

Measurements: 175.26 x 490.22 cm

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A Eulogy to Man, to Donatello & Manet

Work ID: 1454

Measurements: 78.74 x 127 cm

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Steel Landscape No. 11

Work ID: 1449

Measurements: 63.5 x 63.5 cm

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Ancient Boy, to Apollo & Manet

Work ID: 1450

Measurements: 96.52 x 154.94 cm

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Save the Planet / the Floorscrapers, to Keith and Caillebotte (detail)

Work ID: 1447

Measurements: 208.28 x 170.18 cm

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Save the Planet / the Floorscrapers, to Keith and Caillebotte

Work ID: 1446

Measurements: 208.28 x 170.18 cm

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Grid Studies: from Tintoretto, ….

Work ID: 1453

Measurements: each: 52.07 x 41.91 cm

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Kawartha Autumn, Ancient River

Work ID: 2425

Measurements: 55.88 x 76.2 cm

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Symbolic Still Life, A Eulogy to Woman, after Leffel and Van der Weyden

Work ID: 1452

Measurements: 73.66 x 111.76 cm

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An Allegory of balance / to Vermeer & S. LeFont

Work ID: 1448

Measurements: 101.6 x 172.72 cm

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An Allegory of Balances / Woman Pouring Milk, to Vermeer & Earth

Work ID: 1451

Measurements: 78.74 x 124.46 cm

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Still Life Fragment #69, after Zurbaran

Work ID: 1468

Measurements: 62.23 x 62.23 cm

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A Eulogy to Man, to Donatello and Fantin Latour, #2

Work ID: 1464

Measurements: 78.74 x 131.445 cm

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Still Life Fragment #48, after Leonardo

Work ID: 1456

Measurements: 63.5 x 63.5 cm

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Still Life Fragment #2, to Jan Frans van Dael

Work ID: 1458

Measurements: 50.8 x 50.8 cm

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Still Life Fragment #66, after van Eyck

Work ID: 1461

Measurements: 62.23 x 62.23 cm

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Still Life Fragment #9 After Jan Frans Van Dael

Work ID: 423

Measurements: 78.74 x 78.74 cm

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Eulogy to Art & Life (Pompeii Man)

Work ID: 1465

Measurements: 78.74 x 106.68 cm

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Eulogy to Art & Life, to Vermeer, van Huysum & de Chirico

Work ID: 1466

Measurements: 157.48 x 284.48 cm

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A Eulogy to Art & Life, to Vermeer, Fantin Latour and de Chirico

Work ID: 1467

Measurements: 154.94 x 291.465 cm

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Still Life Fragment #66, after van Dael

Work ID: 1460

Measurements: 62.23 x 62.23 cm

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Still Life to Caravaggio

Work ID: 1457

Measurements: 127 x 117.475 cm

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Still Life Fragment #43, after Caravaggio

Work ID: 1455

Measurements: 60.96 x 60.96 cm

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Still Life Fragment #64, after del Piombo

Work ID: 1459

Measurements: 62.23 x 62.23 cm

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Still Life Fragment #62, after Zurbaran

Work ID: 1462

Measurements: 63.5 x 63.5 cm

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A Eulogy to Earth, Gray Sky, (Memory Study)

Work ID: 1472

Measurements: 63.5 x 63.5 cm

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A Eulogy to Earth / Ancient River, Dark Sky (End of Day)

Work ID: 1471

Measurements: 124.46 x 124.46 cm

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A Eulogy to Earth (Memory)

Work ID: 1473

Measurements: 102.87 x 113.03 cm

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A Eulogy to Earth, Golden Clouds (Faith)

Work ID: 1474

Measurements: 102.87 x 113.03 cm

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A Eulogy to Earth, (Faith Study)

Work ID: 1469

Measurements: 63.5 x 63.5 cm

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Still Life Fragment #85, after Holbein

Work ID: 1463

Measurements: 62.23 x 62.23 cm

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A Eulogy to Earth & Mankind (Another History), to Bierstadt

Work ID: 1475

Measurements: 193.04 x 241.3 cm

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A Eulogy to Art & Life (Sanctuary), to Monet & Zola

Work ID: 1480

Measurements: 163.83 x 181.61 cm

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Copper Landscape, Yellow Sky

Work ID: 1483

Measurements: 62.23 x 62.23 cm

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Still Life, to Sanchez-Cotan & Ruskin #2 (Truth)

Work ID: 1481

Measurements: 90.17 x 90.17 cm

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Eulogy (Hope), to Ribera & Caravaggio

Work ID: 1479

Measurements: 111.76 x 172.72 cm

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Still Life, to Sanchez-Cotan & Ruskin #2

Work ID: 1482

Measurements: 71.12 x 83.82 cm

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A Eulogy to Earth / Still Life to Vermeer, De Heem & de Chirico

Work ID: 226

Measurements: 182.88 1/2 x 279.4 1/2 cm

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A Eulogy to Earth, Dawn

Work ID: 225

Measurements: 91.44 1/4 x 91.44 1/4 cm

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Eulogy (Balance), to El Labrador

Work ID: 1477

Measurements: 71.12 x 121.92 cm

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A Eulogy to Life (Balanced), to Caravaggio

Work ID: 1476

Measurements: 162.56 x 187.96 cm

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A Eulogy to Art & Life (Beauty), to Claez & Vermeer

Work ID: 1478

Measurements: 113.03 x 146.05 cm

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Still Life #5, to van Os

Work ID: 1485

Measurements: 93.98 x 115.57 cm

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A Eulogy to Art & Life (Faith) to Espinosa

Work ID: 1488

Measurements: 119.38 x 90.17 cm

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Still Life #2, to Caravaggio

Work ID: 1484

Measurements: 102.87 x 224.79 cm

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A Eulogy to Life, to van Dael

Work ID: 1487

Measurements: 90.17 x 90.17 cm

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Still Life #5 (Memory), to van Os

Work ID: 1486

Measurements: 124.46 x 171.45 cm

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