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        "tombstone": "Woman, View, and Small Square Mirror, 1987. Joy Laville (American, 1923\u20132018). Pastel; sheet: 50.2 x 69.8 cm (19 3/4 x 27 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Kay Kujala Deaux, 2020.239",
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        "description": "The English-born artist Joy Laville relocated to Mexico in 1956 to study art and spent the remainder of her career working there. Beginning in the 1970s, she began to develop her signature style, seen in this work, which focused on introspective images of female figures often rendered abstractly and in a restrained pale palette. Here, Laville used thinly applied pastel\u2014her preferred medium at the time\u2014to produce an enigmatic but provocative depiction of women.",
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        "updated_at": "2026-05-01 06:54:08.034000"
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