Gordon Onslow Ford (acquis de l'artiste vers 1940)
Gordon Max Onslow Ford Trust, Inverness, Californie

Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, La Deriva es Nuestra, 2010

Executed on cream wove paper, laid down on Japanese paper. The Japanese paper is taped to the mount. There are three repaired tears to the sheet - a 7 cm one running vertically from the lower left edge, a 5 cm one running diagonally in the upper left corner and a tiny one along the upper left edge. There are some thin red pencil lines in the lower right quadrant and a 12 cm horizontal line only visible at close inspection in the upper left quadrant. There is a light, oily stain in the centre of the right section and a light brown water stain in the upper right corner. Apart from scattered light time-staining, this work is in stable condition.
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decalcomania : ink on paper. Executed circa 1940.