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Lot Essay
Self-taught artist Keegan McHargue creates dream-like, semi-abstract paintings and drawings that border on the absurd. In the two-part Waiting Room, 2006, a painted couple holding hands is then seen from behind in the black and white element. An expert draftsman, McHargue's composition is playful, yet symbolic - a labyrinth of unnamable apparatuses, light sources and body parts. Post Lot Text This lot is owned in whole or in part by Christie’s.
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Condition report
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Upper Element The sheet is hinged periodically along the edges and corners to the backing board and undulates slightly. The vertical edges of the sheet are deckled. A minute spot of discoloration is near the lower right edge. There is no apparent inpainting visible under ultraviolet light.
Lower Element The sheet is hinged periodically along the edges and corners to the backing board and undulates slightly. The horizontal edges of the sheet are deckled. Minute hairline cracks are visible occasionally in areas of heavier application of paint. A pinpoint loss is to the upper left corner. A faint hairline abrasion is to the center upper edge in a gray passage, visible in raking light. There are pinpoint spots of transfer of medium visible above center. There is no apparent inpainting visible under ultraviolet light.