"Most of Condo’s portraits from [1983] feature figures rendered in ways that straddle disparate conventions and genres. Their uncertain coding often translates into psychological terms: a given figure’s ambiguous pictorial identity can read like a visual analogy for some kind of borderline self or off-the-radar mental predicament." (R. Rugoff, George Condo: Mental States, New York, 2011, p. 15)
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The sheet is hinged periodically along the edges to the backing board and undulates slightly. The edges of the sheet are deckled. The media has shifted in tone. A linear crease is to the upper extreme edge, and a few linear creases are occasionally to the lower register, likely inherent to the sheet. Surface variation and spots of stray media are intermittently, presumably a vestige of the artist's working process and choice of medium. Visible upon close inspection and under ultraviolet light, a few small drip accretions are occasionally to the lower register, most notably the lower left corner. There is no apparent inpainting visible under ultraviolet light.