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 | The sale of the Thomas Eakins masterpiece THE GROSS CLINIC to the National Gallery of Art has been blocked by the City of Philadelphia, its home since it was painted in 1875, which raised a matching $68 million bid. | |
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| The painting depicts Dr. Samuel D. Gross demonstrating a new procedure to remove dead tissue from the thighbone of an adolescent. | |
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| Ewwwwww. gross! | |
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