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Thomas Hart Benton (American, 1889-1975) Whiskey Going into the Rackhouse to Age or Whiskey Barrels, 1945 (detail) oil-tempera on board signed Benton and dated (lower left) 39 x 36 1/4 inches. Property from the Collection of Makers Mark Distillery, Loretto, Kentucky Estimate: $800,000 $1,200,000.
CHICAGO, IL.- Hindmans American and European Art sale will be conducted on October 17 at 10am CST at the Chicago sale room (1338 W. Lake St.). Notable highlights include Henry Moret, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Camille Pissarro, Kees Van Dongen, Jean Dufy, Jasper Francis Cropsey, Childe Hassam, Fern Isabel Coppedge and Thomas Hart Benton. The auction features works on paper by Impressionist masters, including a landscape by Pierre-Auguste Renoir titled Bord de mer Méditerranée ($50,000 - $70,000). Additional highlights include Henry Morets L'Ile de Ouessant, le soir ($80,000 - $120,000) and Jean Dufys Sevilla ($20,000 $30,000). Also for sale is a wonderful example of Thomas Hart Bentons commissioned work, Whiskey Barrels (or Whiskey Barrels Going into the Rackhouse to Age) at an estimated $600,000 - $800,000. The artists work has shown strong results at Hindman in the past, his 1967 Discussion selling for $1,0 ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Since the early 1900s modern ceramics produced in various Dutch and even German cities were popularly called Delft Blue. These objects continued the successful tradition of seventeenth and eighteenth-century products from the city of Delft. Now you may discover the entire color palette of Delftware in an online exhibition presented by Aronson Antiquairs of Amsterdam.
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 | | Oligarchs, as U.S. arts patrons, present a softer image of Russia | | Herman van Swanevelt landscape finds new home at the Crocker Art Museum | | Ginger Baker, drummer with rock legends Cream, dies aged 80 | 
The Guggenheim Museum. Photograph by David Heald © Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York.
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- Vladimir Potanin, a Russian billionaire who made his fortune in banking and natural resources, has been a donor and board member of the Guggenheim Museum since 2002. More recently he gave $6.45 million to the Kennedy Center in Washington, which used some of the money to install the Russian Lounge, a meeting space, in the performing arts complex created, in part, by Congress. His name is now inscribed on a wall there. At the New Museum in Manhattan, another wealthy oligarch, Leonid Mikhelson, helped underwrite a 2011 exhibition through his foundation, which is dedicated to the appreciation of Russian contemporary art. Two years later, the museum named him a trustee, a position he held until last year three years after the company he directs was placed under sanctions by the U.S. government. Fort Ross, a California state historic park that commemorates ... More | | 
Herman van Swanevelt, A Bacchanal in a Landscape, 1645 (detail). Oil on canvas, 25 11/16 x 31 5/16 in. Crocker Art Museum, purchase with funds provided by Malcolm McHenry.
SACRAMENTO, CA.- The Crocker Art Museum announced the acquisition of the 1645 painting "A Bacchanal in a Landscape" by Herman van Swanevelt, the Dutch artist known for revolutionizing landscape painting in 1630s Rome along with his French contemporary Claude Lorrain. "A Bacchanal in a Landscape" depicts a satyr family in an Italian landscape, reflecting the Classicizing changes epitomized by both Swanevelt and Claude. Swanevelt has created a multi-layered world of rich, green fields and forests, with a foreground bathed in sunlight and framed with towering trees. A nymph dances to a satyr's tambourine while others witness the dance, or tend to their children as their goats graze nearby. The painting joins a 1639 drawing by Swanevelt, as well as works in the Crocker collection by other Dutch artists who spent time in Italy during the 17th century. Such artists as ... More | | 
In this file photo taken on November 6, 2015 British musician Ginger Baker of Cream performs at the Rock 'N' Roll Fantasy Camp. KEVIN WINTER / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / AFP.
LONDON (AFP).- Legendary British musician Ginger Baker, a founding member of psychedelic band Cream and considered one of the most innovative and influential drummers of his generation, died on Sunday aged 80. Baker co-founded Cream -- widely seen as the world's first supergroup -- in 1966 alongside guitarist Eric Clapton and bassist Jack Bruce, before embarking on a host of other musical exploits during a colourful and eclectic career. He had a volatile personal life, with four marriages, three children, struggles with drug and alcohol and stormy relationships with bandmates over the decades. Some of the world's most famous drummers, including Ringo Starr on Sunday joined in the tributes. "God bless Ginger Baker incredible musician wild and inventive drummer," wrote The Beatles' drummer on his Twitter account. "Peace and love to his family." His death was ... More |
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| | Sterling Ruby exhibits works from two series, ACTS and TABLES, at Gagosian | | New online exhibition explores the unknown color palettes used to decorate 'Delft Blue' | | Exhibition explores A. R. Penck's period in Dresden | 
Sterling Ruby. Photo: Bennet Perez. Courtesy the artist.
LONDON.- Gagosian is presenting sculptures by Sterling Ruby at Britannia Street. This is his first solo exhibition with the gallery in London. On view are works from two series, ACTS (200618) and TABLES (201519). In an oeuvre spanning sculpture, ceramics, painting, drawing, collage, video, and garments, Ruby continually returns to themes of societal and art historical friction, generating feelings of anxiety and agitation by contrasting clean lines and recognizable objects with coarse and uncanny forms. ACTS + TABLE lays out Rubys critique of the authoritarian, exclusionary ideological underpinnings of Minimalism. He begins with familiar shapes valued by the Minimalistssimple tables and rectilinear blocksbut subverts them by defacing their smooth surfaces and exposing their physical means of production. In ACTSshort for Absolute Contempt for Total SerenityRuby captures liquid dye inside c ... More | | 
The origins of Delftware lie in the early sixteenth-century richly colored Majolica wares, the first consumer pottery in the Netherlands.
AMSTERDAM.- Since the early 1900s modern ceramics produced in various Dutch and even German cities were popularly called Delft Blue. These objects continued the successful tradition of seventeenth and eighteenth-century products from the city of Delft. While the antiques gained attention from both national and international collectors and researchers, the modern factories grew their assortment and also produced similar objects with other color schemes and named them accordingly, i.e. Delft Red or Delft Green. The blue and white objects were however much more sought after and the name Delft Blue stuck. The name soon became interchangeable between the modern and antique ceramics, however we refer to the antique objects as Delftware. In turn, the popular term Delft Blue means that nowadays many ... More | | 
A.R. Penck: Nächtliches Selbstbildnis mit Hut, 1958. Ãl auf Pappe, 42,3 x 30 cm, Privatbesitz © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2019, Foto: Städtische Galerie Dresden Kunstsammlung, Museen der Stadt Dresden, Franz Zadniček.
DRESDEN.- It all started in Dresdenwith an act of artistic self-assertion. Excluded from the Academy and the official art market in the GDR, Ralf Winkler (19392017), who would later become world-famous as A.R. Penck, declared himself an artist on his own authority. He occupied the underground art scene and generated a body of works that was both prolific and versatile, as a painter and illustrator, sculptor and printmaker, Super 8 filmmaker, musician and author. In his life and his artistic practices, he combined analytical and pictorial thinking. He fused ideas from philosophy, natural science, information theory and technology with old and new strategies of image making, as well as awareness of social and artistic issues, to create ... More |
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| | Manchester Museum returns ceremonial and secret sacred material back to traditional custodians | | Basquiat work from 1982 leads the Frieze Week sales in London | | An underwater world of marble to amuse and protect Tuscan fish | 
Manchester Museum has been responsible for some of the material since the 1920s.
MANCHESTER.- Manchester Museum, part of The University of Manchester, and the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies announced the unconditional repatriation of 43 secret sacred and ceremonial objects to the Aranda people of Central Australia, Gangalidda Garawa peoples of northwest Queensland, Nyamal people of the Pilbara and Yawuru people of Broome. Manchester Museum has been responsible for some of the material since the 1920s, and has been active in returning ancestral remains to their communities of origin since 2003, however this marks the museums first return of secret sacred and/or ceremonial material to Australia. AIATSIS CEO Mr Craig Ritchie welcomes the decision made by Manchester Museum, acknowledging its significance not only for the Aboriginal peoples whose items are coming home, but also for Australia more broadly. We congratulate Manchester Museum ... More | | 
Jean-Michel Basquiat (19601988), Four Big, 1982. Overall: 78 x 63 in (198.1 x 160 cm). Sold for £8,605,250. Offered in Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Auction on 4 October 2019 at Christies in London. © Christie's Images Ltd 2019.
LONDON.- The three Frieze Week evening auctions at Christies in London achieved £112,090,375, drawing bidders from more than 45 countries across six continents. Six new world artist auction records were set, along with two artist records by medium. The Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Auction was led by Jean-Michel Basquiats Four Big, executed in 1982, a pivotal year in the artists career. The painting realised £8,605,250 (including buyers premium) in a sale that totalled £64,507,125. The year 1982 was particularly significant for Basquiat. Aged 21, he had successfully transitioned from street artist to king of the New York art scene, enjoying solo shows in Los Angeles, Zürich, Rome and Rotterdam, and being invited to exhibit at Documenta VII in Kassel. Basquiat ... More | | 
Acqua, carved from Carrara marble by Giorgio Butini, lies underwater near the quiet Tuscan fishing village of Talamone, Italy, Aug. 27, 2019. Paolo Fanciullis House of Fish project began as an effort to thwart illegal trawling in local waters. As the statues multiplied, it has grown into something more part public arts project, part tourism initiative, part bid for legacy. (Gianni Cipriano/The New York Times)
TALAMONE (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- As the Sirena brought its passengers back to port, Paolo Fanciulli paused from spreading his nets and sustainable fishing gospel to point at an empty spot of sea. There, below the lighthouse, said Fanciulli, clad in his rib-high yellow waders. The sculptures are there. About 25 feet below the rippling surface of this rocky promontory on the southern Tuscan coast, schools of fish visited a museum of four marble blocks, mined from Michelangelos preferred quarry and sculpted by acclaimed artists. Farther north, another 20 Carrara marble sculptures had a different job as submerged sentries against the ... More |
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| | The Baltimore Museum of Art kicks off 2020 Vision celebrations with new exhibition | | Early 20th century design and Studio Craft spark record-setting prices in Rago's $4.38M Design Auction | | Anna Sui, fashion's favorite daughter, gets her day in the sun | 
Irene Rice Pereira, Red Form. 1939‑1940. The Baltimore Museum of Art: Gift of Michael and Anis Merson, Baltimore, BMA 2010.44. © Estate of Irene Rice Pereira / permission courtesy Djelloul Marbrook.
BALTIMORE, MD.- The Baltimore Museum of Art today opened the first exhibition of its year-long 2020 Vision initiative to celebrate female-identifying artists. By Their Creative Force: American Women Modernists features 20 works by artists such as Elizabeth Catlett, Maria Martinez, and Georgia OKeeffe to recognize the innovative contributions women artists have made to the development of American modernism. The exhibition is on view October 6, 2019July 5, 2020. This exhibition presents a survey of women artists from a variety of geographic regions and socioeconomic backgrounds to tell a more inclusive story of American modernism, said Christopher Bedford, BMA Dorothy Wagner Wallis Director. It also demonstrates the BMAs long history of acquiring works by women artists and our commitment to ... More | | 
Lino Tagliapietra, Exceptional Small Dinosaur. Sold for: $17,500.
LAMBERTVILLE, NJ.- Rago Auctions' September 20-21 Design sales brought in a total of $4,385,063 over the weekend. The two-day, 795-lot auction series achieved impressive results, including at least two record-setting prices, for a wide range of property across five sessions: Martin Brothers: The Andrew Furer and Elle Douglas Collection; Early 20th Century Design; Studio Ceramics; Modern Design; and Contemporary Glass featuring Dan Dailey: From The Barbara Tarleton Collection. The auction series commenced on Saturday with Martin Brothers: The Andrew Furer and Elle Douglas Collection. Comprised mostly of bird-form humidors, this session represented one of the largest single-owner collections of Martin Brothers ever offered at auction and came to Rago via UK-based dealer, AD Antiques. Highlights include: lot 20, a tall bird tobacco jar made in 1899 which shot past the high estimate of $45,000 to sell for $62,500; ... More | | 
Anna Sui at the Museum of Arts and Design, where she has a newly opened retrospective The World of Anna Sui," in New York, Sept. 18, 2019. The retrospective looks back at her four decades in fashion. My parents said, 'Why would you want to be a dressmaker when you can be a doctor or lawyer?'" she recalled. (Grace Rivera/The New York Times)
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- Like some kind of industrious magpie, designer Anna Sui has spent decades assiduously gathering up shiny oddments from the pop culture landscape and shaping them into a singular career in fashion design. Her deeply researched collections 84 of them to date exploit a welter of tweaked archetypes (surfer meets Kawai schoolgirl) and the giddy mash-ups of incongruous archetypes (pirate encounters pre-Raphaelite) that are her specialty. Though she has not, perhaps, radically altered the face of American fashion, she has become one of the industrys durable presences, a designer overdue for the fresh appraisal provided by The World ... More |
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 Placido Domingo absent for Mexico music prize amid scandalMEXICO CITY (AFP).- Placido Domingo was honored Saturday with Mexico's Batuta prize but the Spanish tenor was absent from the ceremony amid a flood of sexual harassment accusations. The opera superstar has been accused by 20 women of forcibly kissing, grabbing or fondling them, in incidents going back to at least the 1980s. He was chosen in May to receive the first edition of the prize along with 15 other honorees, but two days before the award ceremony, organizers said they had decided to withhold the award until the scandal was "clarified." They reversed course on Friday but announced Domingo would not appear in person, instead addressing the gala in a recorded video. "I am very sorry I cannot be present with you tonight, but I send this greeting with all my love, and I thank the organizing committee," said Domingo, in which he did not refer to the allegations ... More Italian artist Francesco Arena opens an exhibition at SprovieriLONDON.- Sprovieri is presenting Cubic Metre of Seawater as a Diagonal, the third solo show at the gallery of Italian artist Francesco Arena. The internal dimensions of a metal tank are specifically designed to contain within it a cubic metre of sea water. Internally the tank is 13 metres and 60 centimetres long, as long as the diagonal of the gallery space. Given this length and establishing that the inner section of the tank is a square, the internal depth of the tank is 27.2 cm; in this tank the cubic metre of seawater can fill all the space without needing any other supporting element. The liquid adapts to its container and the unstable and mobile element stabilises thanks to the metal the tank is made of. The work is clearly a piece of landscape, it is a sculpture that is both full and empty, the fullness of water exists thanks to the empty space in the tank. ... More Grafton Architects to receive Royal Gold Medal for ArchitectureLONDON.- The Royal Institute of British Architects announced Grafton Architects will receive the 2020 Royal Gold Medal, the UKs highest honour for architecture. The Royal Gold Medal is approved personally by Her Majesty The Queen and is given to a person or group of people who have had a significant influence 'either directly or indirectly on the advancement of architecture'. Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara co-founded Dublin-based Grafton Architects in 1978 and work alongside directors Gerard Carty and Philippe OSullivan, who joined the practice in 1992. With an impressive portfolio of projects, the people-centred practice has achieved global recognition most notably for its exemplary education buildings, many of which were commissioned following international competitions. In 2013 Grafton Architects University of Limerick Medical ... More MAXXI Bvlgari Prize 2020: MAXXI and Bvlgari join forces to support young talents in the artsROME.- Giulia Cenci (Cortona, 1988, lives and works in Amsterdam and Tuscany), Tomaso De Luca (Verona, 1988, lives and works in Berlin) and Renato Leotta (Turin, 1982, lives and works in Acireale) are the three shortlisted artists for the MAXXI BVLGARI PRIZE, the project bringing together MAXXI National Museum of XXI Century Arts and Bvlgari, an emblem of Italian excellence for over 130 years to support and promote young artists. The three finalists and the new edition of the PRIZE, the outcome of the long-standing partnership between MAXXI and Bvlgari, were presented today at the Bvlgari Hotel in London by Giovanna Melandri, President of the Fondazione MAXXI and Nicola Bulgari, Vice President of the Bvlgari Group, a great supporter of the MAXXI BVLGARI PRIZE, a passionate collector and patron of the arts. The members of the ... More Rare David Bates self portrait featured in Heritage Auctions' Texas Art AuctionDALLAS, TX.- Artwork reflecting the wide range of cultures and people in Texas will be featured in Heritage Auctions Texas Art Auction Nov. 2 in Dallas, Texas. I am excited about this auction it is as diverse as the state of Texas, Heritage Auctions Texas Art Director Atlee Phillips said. There are some fabulous examples of works from across all periods and genressomething for every collector. David Bates Self Portrait Gulf Coast, 2005 (estimate: $25,000-35,000) is a rarity for the Dallas-born artist and reveals his affection for the South and its physical landscapes, portraying himself while painting in front of water and palm trees. This oil on canvas laid on panel measures 40 inches high by 30 inches wide, is signed Bates lower left and is signed, dated and titled Bates / Self Portrait / Gulf Coast / 2005 on the reverse. Bates is a renowned Texas artist whose work is included ... More A comic store where the children createNEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- Most comic book stores would frown upon their customers sitting on their floor and reading, but Loot is not like other shops. Here its young clientele who would not qualify for most amusement park rides was intently reading comics, discussing them or hard at work making their own. The Brooklyn business is geared toward young and middle school readers and has a monthly subscription model that allows its clientele to binge on comics and take daily classes in writing and drawing their own stories. Think of Loot as less of a store and more of a book club and artistic retreat. The space is the brainchild of Joseph Einhorn, a father of three and the founder of Fancy, a shopping and scrapbooking site. He had two goals: to get young readers interested in comics and to get them away from their screens. I felt that ... More Thomas Dane Gallery opens an exhibition of works by Luigi GhirriLONDON.- The 1969 Apollo 11 view of Earth had a lasting influence on Luigi Ghirri (1943-1992), who understood the photograph as the picture which contained all the pictures of the world: graffiti, frescoes, prints, paintings, writings, photographs, books, films. On describing what really became the first image of the world, Ghirri continued: The power of containing everything vanished in front of the impossibility of seeing everything at the same time. Seeing everything, or rather, seeing the things that others cannot the poetry in the mundane, the beauty of the arcane is the gift of some artists. It was one of Ghirris great talents, through his own inquisitiveness and a love for the ambiguous. One he mastered throughout his photographic oeuvre, and evident in his emblematic series Colazione sullErba (1971-1974), on view at Thomas Dane Gallery. The ... More Michael Simpson presents a group of large-scale Squint paintings at Blain│SouthernLONDON.- Blain|Southern is presenting New Paintings, Michael Simpsons first solo exhibition at the London gallery. Simpson presents a significant body of new work, including a group of large-scale Squint paintings. Michael Simpson (b.1940 Dorset, UK) is an artist whose work is characterised by a reduced palette and a distinctive vocabulary of Benches, Confessionals and Squints, three motifs that appear in three separate series of paintings. Whilst Simpsons apparent subject is the infamy of religious history and the politics of belief, these subjective references provide only a subtext for his principal subject: the mechanics of painting. Whilst Simpsons apparent subject is the infamy of religious history and the politics of belief, these subjective references provide only a subtext for his principal subject: the mechanics of painting. A leper squint is a feature built i ... More First-ever survey of the work of the Berlin collective Honey-Suckle Company opens in LondonLONDON.- The Institute of Contemporary Arts presents Omnibus, the first-ever survey of the work of the Berlin collective Honey-Suckle Company, which brings together key moments of the groups twenty-five-year history. Founded in 1994, Honey-Suckle Company identify themselves as a movement, built around an ongoing series of fluctuating and ephemeral interventions in fashion, music and art. The collective emerged from the post-reunification and pre-Internet cultural and social contexts of Berlin, defined by epochal underground techno and squatting scenes. The groups name is derived from homoeopath Dr Edward Bachs honeysuckle Flower Remedy. According to Bach, the honeysuckle plants homoeopathic properties helps one to learn from past experiences and re-establish a sense of trust in the future in order to feel grounded in the present. ... More Dia presents exhibition of rarely seen works on paper by Marian Zazeela at Dia:BeaconBEACON, NY.- This fall, Dia Art Foundation presents an exhibition at Dia:Beacon, Beacon, New York, of works on paper by renowned multidisciplinary artist Marian Zazeela. Since 1962 Zazeela has worked with her long-time collaborator, La Monte Young, on large-scale installations in sound and light. While Zazeelas sculptures and light design have become well known, her works on paper have remained decidedly less so. This presentation features approximately thirty works on paper dating from 1962 to 1990, which showcase the range of materials and motifs that stem from the artists deep interest in calligraphy and ornamental forms, and link her divergent practices. The exhibition, which marks only the second solo presentation to date of Zazeelas works on paper, opened on October 5, 2019, and will be on view through May 2021. The works on view ... More Claire Tabouret's second solo exhibition with Almine Rech opens in LondonLONDON.- Almine Rech is presenting Claire Tabouret: Portraits, the artist's second solo exhibition with the gallery. Claire Tabouret is acclaimed for her figurative painting representing groups and characters, which may recall those of Romantic painting. The tonalities adopted by Tabouret are sometimes dark and sometimes acidic, making her practice unique. The bodies painted by Claire Tabouret want to harm yet protect, feel, dance, thus opening up a space for the viewers sensitivity. The artist's previous series of works displayed at Almine Rech Paris showcased the theme of the couple. For the exhibition, Claire Tabouret has returned to portraiture. Depicting her relatives and friends figures, the canvases are tainted with personal experience, unfurling a universe of stories and memories. Through this new body of work, Claire Tabouret continues to ... More Major new body of work marks Matthew Barney's first solo exhibition in ChinaBEIJING.- Matthew Barney: Redoubt includes an eponymous two-hour film that traces the story of a wolf hunt in Idahos Sawtooth Mountain range, intertwining the theme of the hunt with those of mythology and artistic creation. Also featured are five monumental sculptures, more than fifty engravings and electroplated copper plates, and an artist-conceived catalogue. The exhibition was first displayed at Yale University Art Gallery from March 1 to June 16, 2019. After its run at UCCA, in October 2020 it will travel to the Hayward Gallery in London following its presentation at UCCA. The artworks in Redoubt continue the artists notable shift in materials over the past decade, from the plastic and petroleum jelly of his early works to the cast metals that figured prominently in River of Fundament (2014). With Redoubt, Matthew Barney (b. 1967, San ... More Beatles classic 'Abbey Road' tops charts again after 50 yearsLONDON (AFP).- Classic Beatles album "Abbey Road" is back at number one in Britain half a century after its first release, with the band breaking their own record for the longest gap between stints at the top of the charts. The band's final studio album with its instantly recognisable zebra-crossing cover came out in September 1969, six days after John Lennon told his bandmates he was leaving the group. It was the UK's best-selling album for 17 weeks, and on Friday a special 50th-anniversary edition featuring unheard material took the top spot once again. "It's hard to believe that Abbey Road still holds up after all these years. But then again it's a bloody cool album," tweeted band member Paul McCartney. With 49 years and 252 days since its last reign, the album has had the longest gap between UK number ones -- a record previously held by the Fab ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American photographer Irving Penn died October 07, 2009. Irving Penn (June 16, 1917 - October 7, 2009) was an American photographer most known for his fashion photography, portraits, and still lifes. Penn's career included work at Vogue magazine, and independent advertising work for clients including Issey Miyake, and Clinique. His work has been exhibited internationally, and continues to inform the art of photography even after his death. In this image: A collector, left, makes a comment as a Christie's auction house worker holds Irving Penn's classic image of Jean Patchet that appeared at the Vogue magazine' cover in 1950, during a presentation in London, Friday May 13, 2005.
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