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Accession number
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1982-0200-0-PS
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Title
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Untitled
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Description
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With broad, forceful, sweeping curves, the painting represents the artist's face in a simplified, deliberately naive style reminiscent of Zen Buddhist art. Surrounding his image are columns of calligraphic forms which were likely created by applying the paint tube to the paper directly. The self-portrait is superimposed over swathes of dilute ink and enigmatic lines which hint at the presence of a secondary image. Mounted on patterned paper, in the manner of a Chinese scroll.
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Inscriptions
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Signed and dated "30.6.1982".
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Condition
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Fairly severe foxing. Light creases at the corners and along the edges. Insect damage along the left and right edges and at the top left, bottom left, and bottom right corners. Tears along the left, right, and bottom edges. Minor traces of grazing. Some insect droppings.
