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Mike Kelley, among the most important international artists to have emerged since the 1980s and arguably the most important L.A.-based artist of his generation, was found dead in his South Pasadena home Tuesday.
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<p>Los Angeles Times art critic Christopher Knight <a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2011/01/art-review-mike-kelley-at-gagosian-gallery.html">called</a> Kelley's recent efforts "a finger-lickin' good body of work" where "Sigmund Freud meets Scheherazade in the Fortress of Solitude." Find out exactly what that means in the following photos.</p>

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