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Paying a Visit, 1915, (1939). Creator: Abram Arkhipov

Paying a Visit, 1915, (1939). A group of village women in brightly-coloured clothes and scarves, chatting in a sunlit room. Abram Arkhipov (1862-1930) studied in Moscow and St Petersburg, and was a member of the art collective The Wanderers, and of the Union of Russian Artists. He was awarded the title of People's Artist of the USSR. Painting in the collection of The State Russian Museum, St Petersburg, Russia. From "The Russian State Museum". [State Art Publishers, Moscow and Leningrad, 1939]

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David Wright woman in a white bikini

Elegant woman with blonde hair, wearing a white bikini and shoes to match. She is sitting on the grass, with a wide-brimmed floppy hat at her side. David Wright (1912 - 1967), was a popular British artist specialising in glamour. His series of pin-ups for The Sketch during the World War II period were immensely popular and morale-boosting to troops

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The Wider Image: Bolivias cholita climbers

An Aymara indigenous woman practises climbing on the Huayna Potosi mountain, Bolivia April 6, 2016. Two years ago, about a dozen Aymara indigenous women, aged 42 to 50, who worked as porters and cooks for mountaineers at base camps and mountain climbing refuges on the steep, glacial slopes of Huayna Potosi, an Andean peak outside La Paz, Bolivia, put on crampons under their wide traditional skirts and started to do their own climbing. REUTERS/David Mercado SEARCH "CHOLITA CLIMBERS" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "THE WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY