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helped him in a personal way, as he suffered emotionally at the time and it made him move on, and he thinks it has universality: "Gender, racism... I wanted to point to all these things. It's a portrait of humanity in a way." The painting process took one week in 2013. Borremans says it was very
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shows a tall woman who stands in front of a wall. She wears a floor-length light pink dress with short sleeves. Her blonde hair is combed back, her eyes are closed and her
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