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Quiet existence of composition (5,4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

still life

'composition' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'quiet existence' is the wordplay.
'quiet' becomes 'still' (still is a kind of quiet).
'existence' becomes 'life' (life is a kind of existence**).
'still'+'life'='STILL-LIFE'

'of' is the link.

(Other definitions for still life that I've seen before include "Picture" , "Painting genre" , "Painting of a bowl of fruit, perhaps?" , "work of art" , "Painting of inanimate things like fruit or flowers" .)

I've seen this clue in The Mirror.
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