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The first ‘Bizarre’ ‘Sliced Circle’ pattern shape 205, the second ‘Bizarre’ ‘Football’ pattern shape 363, the third ‘Fantasque’ ‘Melon’ pattern shape 205
8 ¼ in. (21 cm.) high, the tallest.

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The central vase in the present image, painted in the 'Football' pattern, bears a close relationship to the European Modernist developments of the 1920s. It is one of Cliff’s most complex images. The pattern appears in four variations on the vase, that seem to move vertically, providing four different perspectives, almost like a set of canvases of different views of the same image, or the cubist practice of presenting variant views of the same object simultaneously.

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