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"A beautiful woman can be painted as a totem only; not as a woman, but as a Madonna, a queen, a sphinx."

Saul Steinberg, American Artist

Art, Queen, Woman

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"A beautiful woman can be painted as a totem only; not as a woman, but as a Madonna, a queen, a sphinx."

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