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Last ashes 2 by Noura Alqasasia نُورا القصاصية

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Last ashes 2

Noura Alqasasia نُورا القصاصية portrait
Year 2025
Medium Acrylic on canas
Dimensions 119H × 79W
Location Gaza
Materials Unknown

Description

Frontal half-length portrait of a hooded figure, centered against a streaked slate-gray ground. The head and shoulders are draped in dark fabric that sweeps toward the right edge of the canvas. The face is turned slightly, the gaze directed off to the viewer's left.

Below the edge of the hood, the torso opens into an inset landscape. A pale sun sits near the center-left of a warm yellow, orange, and coral sky, banded with cloud. Beneath it stand collapsed multi-story buildings: dark rectangular window openings, cracked walls, tilted slabs, rubble, and thin pale lines that read as exposed reinforcement.

The painting holds two palettes. The figure and the surrounding ground are cool and desaturated, in slate gray, blue-gray, violet, and near-black, with vertical brushstrokes, visible drips, and scumbling. The inset landscape is warm and high-key. Small accents of orange and red appear along the contour of the hood and on the lips and cheeks.

A cursive signature in orange-red paint appears twice, in the upper right area and again in the lower right corner. No date is legible at the available resolution.

Preservation Notes

ATTRIBUTION CONFIRMED Attribution to Noura Alqasasia confirmed by Sky, Director of Operations, 15 October 2026, in session. Earlier cataloguing raised an open question as to whether works signed at the lower right (this record and Untitled (last ashes)) were by the same hand as those signed at the lower left (Trauma, Noura12, the Heaven series, the Heritage group, Identity). That question is closed by the confirmation above. Both groups are the artist's own work. SIGNATURE Visual inspection of the digital image shows a cursive signature in orange-red appearing twice: once in the upper right area and once in the lower right corner. Recorded as observed. Not transcribed; automated reading has been unreliable across this collection. Note that other notes in this collection record this work as signed lower right only. Worth confirming against the physical work. MATERIAL ASSESSMENT Automated inspection of the digital image suggested oil or acrylic on canvas. Treat as unreliable. Medium left unrecorded pending the artist's own term. RECORD STATUS Year created, medium, dimensions, materials, and location are awaiting information from the artist. They are pending, not overlooked. Per the Director of Operations, 15 October 2026. SUBJECT The title is a personal name. The subject has not been identified in this record and no identifying detail has been entered. Any public naming or description of the subject requires approval from the Director of Operations. SOURCE FILE 2190 x 3038 px, aspect ratio only. Physical dimensions unknown. Primary image file named The last ash.JPG. The record Untitled (last ashes) holds a file named NouraAlqasialastashes.JPG. Whether the two works are a pair, a sequence, or unrelated should be recorded from the artist. PROVISIONAL. All observations above are from visual inspection of a digital image only. No physical examination.

Archival Status: public

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