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To Tell Them There It's Got To, 2013, oil on canvas by Lynette Yiadom-Boakye (b.1977). © Courtesy of the artist, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York and Corvi-Mora, London. Image credit: the artist

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Points of Contact No.8 (edition 28/70), 1966, lithograph by Victor Pasmore (1908–1998). © estate of Victor Pasmore. All rights reserved, 2026 DACS. Image credit: Peter Scott Gallery.

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58 Flavors (Parade Series), (detail), acrylic on canvas by Grace Gardner (1920–2013), © the artist's estate, image credit: Falmouth Art Gallery

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