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Detail of hair during cleaning

close up of hair from the painting showing where the surface is half covered in a darker layer of discoloured varnish

The hair, painted with just a series of upward brushstrokes scumbled thinly over the pinkish coloured ground layer, was also resistant to solvents.

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