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Accession number
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0000-1041-0-CS
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Title
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Untitled
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Description
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With vivid, complementary colours layered onto the canvas in spontaneous, expressive strokes, sometimes using the impasto technique, this semi-abstract portrait depicts the artist wearing an hat and gazing directly at the viewer. The composition is cropped up close, and the chemical composition of the oil paint has been manipulated so as to induce cracks, creating a fragmentary pictorial surface that disintegrates into abstraction when viewed up close. Painted in green, red, blue, orange, and yellow.
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Inscriptions
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"48" written on the left side of the frame.
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Condition
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Dust and dirt. Craquelure (part of the work). Paint flaking and peeling off the canvas; handle with care. The back of the canvas is imprinted with a logo which reads "artist". Bits of paper stuck to the back of the stretcher. Insect remains stuck to the back of the canvas.
