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To her brother, August 1940: "My aspect of the family talent, or curse? has taken the form of a deep intellectual experience, a force which has given me no rest or peace but infinite joy and sometimes even rapture."

— Frances Hodgkins

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Source: As stated in Metro Magazine's "A Question of Authenticity: Are these Frances Hodgkins Artworks Real?," Walsh, Frances 2018. Metro Magazine. Published 8 June 2018.
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