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- ↑ "Nude on a Yellow Sofa". gallery.ca. National Gallery of Canada. Retrieved September 1, 2017.
- ↑ "Yellow Odalisque". philamuseum.org. Philadelphia Museum of Art. Retrieved September 1, 2017.
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