Artist: Vanessa Bell (1879 - 1961)
Nationality: British
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Media: Painting
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Biography:
Vanessa Bell was the wife of Clive Bell, marrying the fellow artists in 1907. She was also the sister of Virginia Woolf who was active in the Bloomsbury group alongside her husband. Her initial painting approach was fairly conservative before she adapted the ideas of the Post-Impressionist movement. By 1914, Bell was painting only abstract work. She began living with Duncan Grant two years later, with whom she spent the remainder of her life traveling and painting at their house in Firle, Sussex.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (60)
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Teacup and Saucer with Abstract Leaf Motif, Vanessa Bell (Kensington (Kensington and Chelsea, England, United Kingdom), 1879 - 1961)  (Designer), circa 1932, Hand painted earthenware
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Vanessa Redgrave, Victor Skrebneski (United States, born 1918) , 1967, printed 1991, Platinum print
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VB 30, 1997, Santa Fe, New Mexico, Vanessa Beecroft (Italy, Liguria, Genoa, born 1969)  (Artist), 1997, Chromogenic development print
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John Vanderlyn - Mary Ellis Bell (Mrs. Issac Bell) c. 1827 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Winslow Homer - The Morning Bell 1873 Wood Engraving Arizona State University Museum
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David Octavius Hill - Mrs. Bell of Madras c. 1844 salted-paper print f Cincinnati Art Museum British
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Thomas Gainsborough - Ralph Bell 1772-74 oil on canvas North Carolina Museum of Art British
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Peter Busa - Mariner's Bell 1962 oil on canvas Minneapolis Institute of Arts American
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Gian Girolamo Grandi - Hand Bell n.d. bronze The Frick Collection Italian
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Sir Henry Raeburn - Portrait of Mrs. George Bell c. 1801-02 oil on canvas Minneapolis Institute of Arts Scottish
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Julia Duckworth
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Ghanti (Hand Bell), second half of the 19th century Northern IndiaBrass; H. 12 in. (30.5
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CHARLES WILLIAM BELL ; DIT AUTREFOIS THOMAS BELL (1798 avant) by LAWRENCE Sir Thomas
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VANESSA / .10 (titre inscrit) (1877 entre ; 1907 et) by ROMANET (éditeur) ; LA LITHOGRAPHIE PARISIENNE (imprimeur)
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William Bell Teaspoon silver 1816
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Ceramic Horn, 19th century Unknown MakerFranceGlazed pottery; L. perpendicular to bell 17 in. (43.3 cm);
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Artist: artist unknown Title: Ritual bell Date: late 6th century B.C. - 5th century B.C.
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Fashion Plate (Mrs. Bell’s Mantelet à la Capucine), John Bell (England, 1811 - 1895) , Febuary 1, 1820, Hand-colored engraving on paper
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Thomas Robert Way The Old Bell Inn, Holborn, plate 14 in the book Reliques of Old London with introduction and descriptions by Henry B. Wheatley (London: George Bell & Sons, 1896) lithograph 1893
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Mz. Bell, Jean Conner (born 1933)  (Artist), 1969, Collage
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Unidentified artist The Anatomy and Philosophy of Expression As Connected with the Fine Arts by Charles Bell, 4th ed. (London: John Murray, 1847) book with engravings 1847
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Unidentified [(No.1) Benkei with a temple bell] color woodcut 1894
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Unidentified [(No.1) Benkei with temple bell] color woodcut 1894
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Larry Bell Untitled vacuum coated color (quartz film) 1978
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Larry Bell Untitled glass, rhodium plated brass, plexiglass 1986
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Painter of the Louvre G508 Red-Figure Bell Krater Terracotta circa 380 BC
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LA BONNE AVENTURE (1898) by BELL Sir Robert Anning
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Artist: Sir Henry Raeburn Title: Portrait of Mrs. George Bell Date: about 1801 - 1802
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Henry Wolf The Bell Ringers 19th - 20th century
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LÈon Le Goaebe de BellÈe Bords de l'Orne etching 19th century
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Ritual bell (gantha) with a vajra handle Javanese Indonesia, Central Java, about 10th century Bronze
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Untitled, Larry Bell (United States, Illinois, Chicago, born 1939-12-06) , 1961, Oil on canvas
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The Bell Inn George Morland (British, 1763-1804)Oil on canvas; 20 1/2 x 26 1/4 in.
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Artist: Nishimura Shigenaga Title: The Evening Bell at Mii Temple Date: about 1730 Medium: color
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Anonymous 20 watercolors of Otsu-e subjects: Benkei with a bell watercolor early 20th century
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Blue Oval Platter, Quentin Bell (England, 1910-08-19 - 1996-12-26)  (Artist), 1980s, Terracotta, glaze
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The Sound of a Bell, Ishikawa Toraji (Japan, 1875 - 1964) , 1934, Color woodblock print
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Table Bell, Meissen Porcelain Factory (born founded 1710) , circa 1740, Porcelain
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Artist: William Bell Title: Canon of Kanab Wash, Colorado River, Looking North Date: about 1872
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Untitled, Larry Bell (United States, Illinois, Chicago, born 1939-12-06) , 1968, Coated glass
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Untitled, Larry Bell (United States, Illinois, Chicago, born 1939-12-06) , 1971, Coated glass
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Artist: John Coles Title: Crest: Name of Beckett Date: about 1790 Medium: watercolor and ink
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Artist: John Coles Title: Crest: Name of Fairfield Date: about 1790 Medium: watercolor and ink
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PF 24 (Planel Fade), Larry Bell (United States, Illinois, Chicago, born 1939-12-06) , 1979, Paper
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Keiko Minami L'Horloge (The Bell Tower) Color etching 20th century
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Stupa-shaped bell with bull finial Javanese Indonesia, Eastern Java, 12th – 13th century Bronze Approximately
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Bell Flower, Hannah Borger Overbeck (1870 - 1931) , circa 1915, Watercolor and ink on paper
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Evening Bell at Miidera, Utagawa Hiroshige (Japan, Edo, 1797 - 1858) , no date, Color woodblock print
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Bell (after 1st-century B. C. Pompeiian type) Italy, 19th century Bronze 14.5 x 5.4 cm
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Bass trombone England, late 19th century Brass Overall Length: 137 cm (53 15/16 in.) Museum
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Artist: Diane Bell and Heal Fabrics Title: Vista Date: 1977 Medium: cotton Dimensions: L.86 x
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Artist: Diane Bell and Heal Fabrics Title: Reflection Date: 1974 Medium: cotton Dimensions: L.115 x
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George Cruikshank Untitled [Man with bell] brown ink 18th - 19th century
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Fashion Plate (Parisian Fashions), John Bell (England, 1811 - 1895) , 1807, Engraving on paper
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Artist: William Bell Title: Colorado River, Mouth of Kanab Wash, Looking West Date: 1872 Medium:
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Untitled, Larry Bell (United States, Illinois, Chicago, born 1939-12-06) , 1970, Coated plate glass
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Edward Bell Delicate Embarrassment or The Rival Friends Color aquatint 18th century
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Edward Bell Mutual Confidence, or the Sentimental Friends Color aquatint 18th century
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Cube, Larry Bell (United States, Illinois, Chicago, born 1939-12-06) , 1966, Vacuum coated glass
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L'oracle : trois jeunes femmes dans un parc (1897) by BELL Robert Anning

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (40)
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Bell-Roberts Art Gallery: Comics Brew
'Comics Brew' presents a show of original comic artwork by T. Ott and Kalonji from Switzerland, Stassen from Belgium and Rabaté from France, with Karlien de Villiers, ND Mazin, Brendon Bell-Roberts and the Igubu Collective. The Comics Brew catalog...
Bell-Roberts Art Gallery: Matthew Hindley: Surrender
"Informed by media reportage, individual experience and a developing personal iconography of metaphorical characters, these scenarios are rendered as encoded fictions or metaphors of trauma, couched in a "pop style." "Central to both his two...
Bell-Roberts Art Gallery: Kevin Brand: 50+
The exhibition uses a repetition of an image that is never seen from the same perspective simultaneously: so although the work is a marked shift from his focussed „issue based‰ earlier concerns, the repetition alludes to his prior use of pixillati...
Joao Ferreira Fine Art: Crossings and Monuments Too: Deborah Bell
Her figures deal with the cycles of birth, life, death and rebirth. She refers to her work as "silent images of different cultures and times that speak to me of an alternative history; and a spiritual language that we have lost; that haunt me - I ...
Experimental Art Foundation: Architectural Optics
THROW: two projected characters (a male and female) become moving targets as the audience is invited to throw soft satin balls aiming at them. The participants gradually discover that what had seemed at first like an easy task is rather challengin...
Jewish Federation/ Bell Family Gallery: Art and Artifice: Photographic Portraits by Strauss-Peyton
From the turn of the 20th century through the Roaring 20's, Strauss-Peyton's innovative techniques and dramatic results found favor with both world leaders and fashionable trend-setters. The most famous celebrities of that era, including Fanny Br...
Bell-Roberts Art Gallery: 10 Years 100 Artists: Art in a Democratic South Africa
The new premises at 89 Bree Street (between Shortmarket and Hout Streets) was originally built in 1752. The space is elegant and spacious , with a touch of old world charm about it. The gallery will now be situated on two floors and a roof top gar...
Bell-Roberts Art Gallery: It's Never too Late to be a Man: Works by Norman O'Flynn
Norman OFlynn has travelled extensively throughout Africa attending residencies and workshops in Zambia, Egypt, Zimbabwe and Botswana. He has recently returned to Cape Town after a three month residency in Switzerland. Never too late to be a...
Bell-Roberts Art Gallery: To a Promised Land: Marieke Kruger
Marieke Kruger's art making processes are lodged in a paradoxical and ambiguous interplay between the conscious and the sub-conscious where the interaction between images, media and materials creates a rich variety of multiple meanings through pla...
Bell-Roberts Art Gallery: Berco Wilsenac: In die sterre geskryf
The concept of the blind astronomer suggests a double irony where, although a measure of information is provided; he does not have access to the visual embodiment of the information. The sighted observor, on the other hand, does not have access to...
Bell-Roberts Art Gallery: New Works by Noria Mabasa
Ms. Mabasa runs an art school in Venda from where she instructs her students in the dying art of clay-pot and sculpture making. She started working in clay in 1974 and, motivated by a dream, two years later became the first Venda woman to work in ...
Bell-Roberts Art Gallery: About Face: Contemporary Portraiture and Painting
Celebrated South African artists Cameron Platter, Nigel Mullins, Norman O’Flynn, Paul du Toit, Sanell Aggenbach and Tanya Poole were invited to use the genre both as a form of self and societal reflection.   From the frivolous and potentiall...
Bell-Roberts Art Gallery: GALLERY MOVES TO NEW PREMISES AND OPENS WITH Between Meaning and Matter
Encompassing a cross section of experimental and traditional art practice, Between Meaning and Matter includes a pixilated mural by 2008 Mercedes-Benz South Africa Art Award winner, Kevin Brand; a two-metre (circum.) lazer-cut tondo based on inter-ne...
Alan Cristea Gallery: Langlands and Bell: A Muse Um
In their A Muse Um computer animation, acronyms are interspersed with photographs that Langlands & Bell have taken of the museums.  Mathematically ordered, the codes and photos are superimposed until they begin to dissolve into each other in an en...
Jewish Federation/ Bell Family Gallery: Israel in Crisis Exhibit: 20 Years of Israeli Art, 1980-2000
"I wanted viewers to see that Israeli artists handle difficult subject matter and are not afraid to lift up rocks and see the underside," stated Michael Hittleman.  "The works are all about politics, discomfort with society, uneasy feelings, dread...
Bell-Roberts Art Gallery: Picnic: A Summer Show - Curated by Andrew Lamprecht
Artists included in the exhibition are Usha Seejarim, Kathryn Smith, Doreen Southwood, Kevin Brand, Matthew Hindley, Ed Young, Christian Nerf, Sanell Aggenbach, Geoff Grundlingh, Zen Marie, Vuyisa Nyamende and Cameron Platter, Brett Murray, and Sv...
Huntington Library, Art Collections, & Botanical Gardens: THE ART OF BLOOMSBURY
Works by Bell, Fry, and Grant will be complemented by those of their contemporaries, such as Henry Lamb, Walter Sickert, Dora Carrington and William Roberts, and by the great continental modernist painters they admired, notably Picasso, Derain, a...
Bell-Roberts Art Gallery: Sanell Aggenbach: Fool's Gold
Exploration and heritage are the underlining concepts, while illusions, fallacies and forgeries are presented to confuse perceptions of reality. The painted works interpret the uncertainty and fear that captured the sailor’s imagination when embar...
Bell-Roberts Art Gallery: Doreen Southwood: The Swimmer
It is a space where oppression and depression which are continually swept under the carpet in favour of a more acceptable outward appearance. Doreen details the pathologies and symptoms that attend this denial. Symptom relieving drugs domestic cra...
Irish Museum of Modern Art: Langlands and Bell: The House of Osama Bin Laden
Using a still and a digital video camera, Langlands & Bell recorded visits to ISAF HQ (the multi-national task force in Kabul led by the Turks at that time), the American airbase at Bagram, a murder trial at the Supreme Court in Kabul, the site of...
Physics Room: Dear Victoria: Victoria Bell and Victoria Edwards
Victorias Bell and Edwards reinforce this by saying, ‘Ideas and process became cyclic with motifs reappearing in various mediums. Recurring forms drawn from the collaborative process have been identified and cross-referenced within the work, while...
Bell-Roberts Art Gallery: Kevin Brand: An Exhibition of Paintings Entitled 4x4
He has always felt free to move from one medium or process to another and, as such, painting is not that radical a departure. Where his ‘Balm of Banal’ series saw him create a series of assemblages made from ‘everyday’ items such as eggboxes and b...
Bell-Roberts Art Gallery: Threads: Gina Waldman AND Lost and Found: Isolde Krams

ARTIST STATEMENT: GINA WALDMAN “The image of a tapestry is so domestic and in some ways banal, but so many interesting things happen on their surfaces. The front side of the tapestry is like a paint by number; perfect and seamless, whereas the ...
Victoria and Albert Museum: Close Encounters of the Art Kind: Work By Tania Kovats, Langlands and Bell, Sarah Lucas, Keir Smith, Richard Wilson, Bill Woodrow
Close Encounters of the Art Kind is devised by the innovative curator/artist, Colin Painter. Pioneering projects at the National Gallery (At Home with Constable's Cornfield, 1996) and Tate Britain (At Home With Art, 1999-2000) built on Painter's y...
Bell-Roberts Art Gallery: Pierre Crocquet: On Africa Time
Text is included to complement the images. It is in the form of quotes from the people photographed and descriptions of the context in which they were photographed. It also contains the interpretations and perceptions of the photographer. The imag...
Bell-Roberts Art Gallery: Cameron Platter: Life is Very Interesting
It features all the tried and tested themes of love and revenge, temptation and crookery, megalomania and obscene excess in the war between good and evil in contemporary South Africa. It promises to be an action-packed spectacle of crime and punis...
Bell-Roberts Art Gallery: Doreen Southwood: Nothing Really Matters
Doreen is an Afrikaans speaking white female in her late twenties. Her work deals largely with issues of obsession and mental illness, striving to find the perfect balance between fear and love, order and chaos. She questions identity while dealin...
Yale Center for British Art: The Art of Bloomsbury
The Yale Center for British Art is the final stop for this exhibition that includes masterpiece paintings from the collections of the Tate Gallery, the National Portrait Gallery (L...
Bell-Roberts Art Gallery: Giovanni Agresti Fiumara: Capetonians©
“Many people are anxious when they’re about to be photographed: not because they fear, as primitives do, being violated but because they fear the camera’s disapproval. People want the idealized image: a photograph of themselves looking their best....
Bell-Roberts Art Gallery: PRINT 07: Limited Addition Prints
The inaugural PRINT 07 is organised and hosted by the Bell-Roberts Gallery @ Lourensford, in association with UCT’s Michaelis School of Fine Art, Stellenbosch University Visual Arts Department and Rhodes University Fine Art Department. PRINT 07 wi...
Bell-Roberts Art Gallery: Women: Bongi Bengu
By aligning myself with this line of thinking as my forebears, I am searching to define my own identity. I ask myself questions relating to womanís sense of power or powerlessness. The mural decorations can be viewed as openings or invitations t...
I. Wolk Gallery: Mitchell Johnson: New Paintings
This show will feature more than 25 new pieces ranging from painterly figure compositions reminiscent of David Park and the Bay Area Figurative Tradition to bucolic scenes of Italy and California. Johnson’s particular use of color and gesture sho...
Shoreditch Tabernacle Hall: Art That Makes You Curious: Works by Eleven Artists
ART THAT MAKES YOU CURIOUS provides the opportunity to explore the diversity of artists in a space that echoes with unusual and unexpected vibrations, captivating the imagination and encouraging the viewer to explore the personal interactions with...
Atlanta College of Art, Woodruff Arts Center: Tony Gray: The New Black is Black
Starring the resplendently Afro-ed Panthers in their bell-bottomed glory, the collages capture the flair and un-self-conscious enthusiasm of teen bedroom walls — the homemade stage-set of American adolescence — circa 1973. Patterning nostalgia ...
Tacoma Art Museum: Clearly Brilliant: A Decade of Pilchuck Glass School's Emerging Artists in Residence
The artists represented in Clearly Brilliant bring many themes and unique approaches to their work. Some artists make reference to objects you would see in everyday li...
Tate Britian: James Gillray: The Art of Caricature
This exhibition sets out to re-examine Gillrays art, through a selection of the finest impressions of his caricatures, almost all of which are examples of the hand-colouring applied at the time they were produced, alongside a...
Bell-Roberts Art Gallery: Grime: Conceptualised and curated by Retha Erasmus
The same group of artists are asked to participate with two replacements. As was the case with CLEAN the basic premise of GRIME falls on producing colourless art works. In this case artists are requested to produce works of art that are mainly/ ...
Bell-Roberts Art Gallery: Spot the Dog: A Sculpture-based Installation by Raymond Smith
The age old discipline of manipulating clay provides the ideal material to capture the essence in character, touch and feel of each breed. After ageing and firing the once wet clay becomes stone which cannot be altered. In this work limited editio...
Bell-Roberts Art Gallery: Guy Tillim: Departure -  Photographic Exhibition and Book Launch
His photographs also formed the basis of the exhibition and book Amulets and Dreams: War Youth and Changing Africa (Pretoria) 2002 which was exhibited at the launch of African Union, Durban, July 2002. More recently he was selected, among 100 phot...
Art & Science Collaborations, Inc.: Fostering the Collaboration of Art & Science
SARA DIAMOND Artist, curator, writer, artistic director, Media and Visual Arts at The Banff Centre for the Arts and Executive Producer of New Media and Television. Reaction/Diffusion R and D -- The Navigation of Intelligence Samplin...

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