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        "tombstone": "Girlfriends I, 1967. Sigmar Polke (German, 1941\u20132010), edition h. Offset photolithograph; sheet: 47.9 x 60.8 cm (18 7/8 x 23 15/16 in.); image: 46 x 59 cm (18 1/8 x 23 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 1999.96. \u00a9 Artists Right Society (ARS), New York",
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        "title": "Girlfriends I",
        "creation_date": "1967",
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        "measurements": "Sheet: 47.9 x 60.8 cm (18 7/8 x 23 15/16 in.); Image: 46 x 59 cm (18 1/8 x 23 1/4 in.)",
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        "edition_of_the_work": "150",
        "copyright": "\u00a9 Artists Right Society (ARS), New York",
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            {
                "inscription": "numbered, lower left 28/150; signed and S. Polke 67, in graphite below the image",
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            "current": [
                {
                    "id": 188479,
                    "title": "From Rembrandt to Rauschenberg:  Recently Acquired Prints",
                    "description": "<i>From Rembrandt to Rauschenberg:  Recently Acquired Prints</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 17-November 26, 2000).",
                    "opening_date": "2000-09-17T00:00:00"
                },
                {
                    "id": 455214,
                    "title": "Photographs in Ink",
                    "description": "<i>Photographs in Ink</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 20, 2022-April 2, 2023).",
                    "opening_date": "2022-11-19T05:00:00"
                }
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                    "description": "Cleveland, Ohio:  The Cleveland Museum of Art; September 17 - November 26, 2000.  \"From Rembrandt to Rauschenberg:  Recently Acquired Prints.\"",
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        "description": "In <em>Girlfriends I, </em>Sigmar Polke enlarged an image from popular culture to the point where the halftone pattern is not only visible but competes with the bold women for our attention. In addition to conveying the tones of the photographic image, the halftone here became a symbol of mass media and consumer culture itself. The pattern\u2019s primary job is to trick our eyes into seeing a photographic image with a full range of grays, not a busy field of black dots. But for the artist and many others working in the 1960s, the halftone took on a more layered meaning.",
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        "catalogue_raisonne": "Becker & von der Ostern 3",
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        "creditline": "John L. Severance Fund",
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        "updated_at": "2026-05-01 06:52:17.654000"
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