Post War and Contemporary Art

This work is very loosely stretched and without a cross braces to the stretcher bars; there is evidence of thinning with craquelure to the paint along the right shoulder of the subject as well as in the dark pigments immediately below the subject's collar; there is a nail head sized stain to the paint in the upper right quadrant on the subjects left shoulder; otherwise, this work appears to be in basic good and stable condition.

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