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The novel is an epic, but “Behind the South,” while inspired by the book, is largely a mix of ritual theater and semi-abstract dance sections.

But that price was the same as the record $3.6 million given in March for the British artist Flora Yukhnovich’s 2020 semi-abstract canvas “Warm, Wet ’N’ Wild,” inspired by another 18th-century French painting.

It evokes Constantin Brancusi’s 1908 “The Kiss,” a semi-abstract depiction of a nearly identical man and woman embracing eyeball to eyeball.

One early painting, the semi-abstract “Salazar Vomiting the Homeland,” excoriated the dictatorship and would have been impossible to display at the time in Portugal.

She studied at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London, and became well-known in Portugal thanks to her semi-abstract work that dealt with violent or political subjects.