Vera Klement: Blunt Edge

Vera Klement: Blunt Edge

Vera Klement: Blunt Edge

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Vera Klement: Blunt Edge

2010

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As her 80th birthday is approaching, Vera Klement, an oil painter in Chicago, adamantly starts yet another new figure painting: a portrait of an artist under oppression, an homage to Russian composer, Dmitri Shostakovitch.

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