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MESIEM YIPINTSOI
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After Mesiem Yipintsoi achieved success in painting and
was honoured as an 8Artist of Distinction9 in 1951, she
began practising sculpture. From the mid-1940s onwards,
Mesiem created both paintings and sculptures.
The oil painting
