Untitled

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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, 1037 x 1600 px, 249 KB JPEG. Good capture, sufficient for study, screen publication, and modest print reproduction. DIGITAL PRESERVATION The image file is now the artifact. Obtain the artist's original camera file if it still exists, store an uncompressed master alongside the JPEG, record a checksum, and hold a copy outside the Content Lake. Do not re-crop, re-compress, or color-correct the existing file. MATERIAL RECORD Oil on canvas, 70 x 50 cm. The description records a two-stage process: the figure of Haidar Abdel-Shafi was first sculpted, then painted in oils. OUTSTANDING 1. Title. The house standard requires "Untitled" to carry a parenthetical descriptor rather than stand alone. "Untitled (Haidar Abdel-Shafi)" would follow the record's own description, but the title field already holds a value and has not been changed. Confirm with the artist whether the work is genuinely untitled. 2. The intermediate sculpture the description refers to. Whether it survives, whether it was photographed, and whether it should have its own record. 3. Whether Haidar Abdel-Shafi should be cross-referenced elsewhere in the archive. 4. Original camera files.

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