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"Surprise" | 
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| The artist at work in his Paris apartment, 1951. | 
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The bedroom lined with paintings and dominated by a lady in black along with bookcases, comfortable chairs and a fur bed cover.  | 
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"La Toque Rouge" | 
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the artist's atelier 
his drawings- paintings hang amongst Classical objects, at far right, a masked bust, a recurring theme in his art 
below, a Jean Desses, masked sphinx label, 1952. 
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