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Curatorial Narrative The enigmatic “Group of children” by Abraham de Miranda presents itself as a stark exercise in Expressionist restraint. Created in the modern era, its black-and-white palette imbues the scene with an air of deliberate detachment, underscoring the artist’s fascination with stripping away extraneous ornamentation to reveal the essential forms beneath. As the composition expands to fill a 55×44 inch space, its linear brushwork begins to establish a rhythmic tension between areas of deep shadow and sudden bursts of luminosity. In this larger format, the chromatic structure of black and white assumes an almost sculptural quality, as if the artist has distilled the very essence of light and darkness into a two-dimensional configuration. The resulting spatial impact is one of controlled unease, with the viewer’s eye drawn inexorably towards the central axis, where the children seem to be poised on the cusp of movemen