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Frida: The Making of an Icon

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Annotated typescript from David Sylvester’s work on Alberto Giacometti TGA 200816/5/4

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Explore an in-depth display, using original material from Tate’s Library, Archive and Public Records’ collections

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Photographs of Hyman Kreitman Reading Rooms at Tate Britain, and of Tate Archive

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Join the Red Cavalry! A recruitment poster published in Ukrainian from Kiev 1920. Artist unknown, David King Collection, Tate.  

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Postcard to Barbara Reise from Lee Lozano, 2 November 1971. From the archive of Barbara Reise, TGA 786/5/4/26, Tate Archive: Groups and Subjects: Women’s Art. Photograph © Tate 2016. 


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