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Charlotte Wilkins

Henri Matisse, Goldfish, 1912, oil on canvas, 146 x 97 cm (Pushkin Museum of Art, Moscow) — To say that Matisse “had a thing for goldfish” would be kind of an understatement.

A-Level: Henri Matisse, Goldfish

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Gil de Siloe, Saint James the Greater, 1489–93 (Burgos, Castile-León, Spain), Alabaster with paint and gilding, 45.9 × 17.4 × 12.5 cm (The Cloisters, New York)

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