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  Artwork: Subtlety
  Artist: PICABIA, Francis
  Date: 1928
  Technique: Gouache on paper
  Location: National Galleries of Scotland
  Notes: Original title is "Sotileza". Several different images are layered on top of one another. There are three interpenetrating but distinct layers: the Spanish lady in a lace mantilla depicted in a deliberately kitsch style; an outline drawing of a matador in full costume; and a simplified representation of a Madonna, crowned in the Catalan Romanesque style.
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  Subject: Other Portraits of Mary, Mother of Jesus


  Hosts: National Galleries of Scotland  [IMAGE]