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        "tombstone": "Lobster Claw, c. 1929. Jean Painlev\u00e9 (French, 1902\u20131989). Gelatin silver print; image: 22.9 x 17.3 cm (9 x 6 13/16 in.); paper: 24.2 x 18.4 cm (9 1/2 x 7 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 2007.99",
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                "inscription": "Written in blue ink on verso: \"Pince de Homard\"\r\nWritten in pencil on verso: \"Jean Painleve/1928\"\r\n",
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                    "title": "Accommodations of Desire: Surrealist Works on Paper Collected by Julien Levy",
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                    "title": "Forbidden Games: Surrealist and Modernist Photography",
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        "description": "A hallmark of Surrealism is the ability to get the viewer to look at a commonplace object or scene and suddenly see it differently. By simply removing the object from context and turning the image on end here, the transformation was realized. Its two creators often worked in a documentary mode, but sometimes ventured beyond it to explore the boundaries between Realism and Surrealism.",
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            {
                "citation": "Heu Bernard. \"Pour le cineaste Painleve, les vedettes sont millimetrees.\" Telemagazine 168 (January 1959): 8-9.",
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        "updated_at": "2026-05-01 06:52:48.170000"
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