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Adamson Collection

Identified works created in Adamson's studios

Works by Oultram, Mavis

Head of a woman with curled blonde hair containing five figures of women with brown hair and purple tops

A small eye with a blue iris

Head of a woman with curled brown hair containing blue eyes

Different coloured eyes against a pale grey background

Coloured swirls and patterns, and an eye with a blue iris

A jagged multicoloured flame shape and an eye in a diamond shape

A woman in a red dress in a crucifix pose on a grey kite with fields below

Head of a woman with a large central eye with smaller eye on cheek

Head and torso of a woman with multicoloured curly hair, and sunflower heads with blue segments covering her breasts

Head and shoulders of a person with brain exposed split between two patterned backgrounds

Sunflower with a face and roots in a multicoloured soil with chickens and green hills in the background

Head and torso of a woman in front of a wooded landscape

Nude man and woman seated, a nude child lying on their laps, with trees in the background

Head and torso of a nude woman with hair and background consisting of various rounded and spiky multicoloured shapes

A large yellow eye surrounded by rounded and spiky multicoloured shapes on a dark blue and black ground

Arms, a theatrical mask and an abstract house amongst various rounded and spiky multicoloured shapes

Turreted towers and chickens on a pink, green, blue and yellow patterned ground

Head and torso of a woman wearing a blue dress, with a row of terraced houses and a pattern of theatrical masks in the background

Theatrical masks amongst patterned leaves in a green plant pot

Theatrical masks amongst patterned leaves in a green plant pot

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