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Baroque

1963-1964
Thomas Chimes (American, 1921–2009)
Baroque takes its title from the complexity of its composition and its palette of vivid colors, which glow like crushed jewels. Completed in 1964, it is among the last of Chimes's crucifixion paintings, and was shown in his highly successful solo exhibition at the Bodley Gallery in New York in 1965. Baroque was subsequently included in several important exhibitions, including the 1966 exhibition Surrealism: A State of Mind, 1924-1965 at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where it was displayed alongside major works by Salvador Dalí, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Man Ray, and André Masson.

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