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Article about Harald Giersing's Danish modernistic masterpiece: "Fokin and Fokina" (1918)

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Article about Harald Giersing's Danish modernistic masterpiece: "Fokin and Fokina" (1918)

The art historian, Dr Lennart Gottlieb discusses the background of Giersing’s “Fokin and Fokina”, one of the last central works in private ownership from the Danish artist Harald Giersing’s Cubist/Expressionist period between 1917 and 1920.
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