Portrait of Dirgham Qreiqea

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Preservation Notes

STATUS Physical work destroyed, no longer extant. Recorded 2026-09-18 on the instruction of Sky, PAPA: the artist's studio and home were destroyed in Israeli airstrikes and no physical work in this collection is known to survive. This record documents a work that no longer exists. SURVIVING RECORD One digital image, 1199 x 1600 px, 137 KB JPEG. Good capture, sufficient for study, screen publication, and modest print reproduction. DIGITAL PRESERVATION This record now carries two losses: the painting and the sitter. The image file is the only surviving form of both. Obtain the artist's original camera file as a priority, store an uncompressed master, record a checksum, and hold a copy outside the Content Lake. Do not re-crop, re-compress, or color-correct. MATERIAL RECORD Oil on canvas, 70 x 50 cm. The description records that the sitter was painted from life, by direct observation. SUBJECT, HANDLE WITH CARE The description records that Dirgham Qreiqea was killed when his home was bombed, after this portrait was made. All copy about the sitter uses past tense and memorial framing. The artist's own account is already on the record and should be quoted rather than paraphrased. Do not add any detail about the sitter, his family, or the circumstances beyond what the artist himself has written here. OUTSTANDING 1. Original camera files. 2. Whether the sitter's family has been consulted about public use of this record. This should be settled before the work appears in any external context. 3. Whether Dirgham Qreiqea should be cross-referenced elsewhere in the archive.

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