Wilhelmina Barns-Graham

The Artist, by whom bequeathed to the Barns-Graham Charitable Trust in January 2004

The sheet is sound, is not laid down, but is adhered to the mount about the edges. The are a few isolated areas of lifting paint with one or two tiny flecks of paint loss to the black pigment: in a small area near the centre of the left edge and to one or two isolated places along the right edge. There is a small area of craquelure in the orange pigment in the upper left quadrant. There is an old diaganol crease in the lower left corner with a resultant line of craquelure to the paint surface. There is a small abrasion to the black pigment near the centre of the lower left edge. There are strong colours throughout. Held under glass in a white painted wood frame. Please telephone the department on 0207 293 6424 if you have any questions regarding the present work.
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