This mixed media collage features a torn newspaper image revealing a mustached male portrait beneath expressive gestural brushwork. The composition combines photographic imagery with painterly overlays, creating a layered, psychologically charged presentation that reflects the experimental visual language of late 1960s–early 1970s conceptual and assemblage-based art.

The newspaper fragment prominently displays the masthead “Times Star”, with partial headline text visible, integrating mass media imagery into the work’s structure. Broad, expressive brushstrokes surround and partially obscure the central figure, emphasizing themes of identity, concealment, and media distortion.

The work is executed on handmade or deckle-edged paper, suggesting intentional material choice consistent with experimental printmaking and collage practices of the period. A faint handwritten date reading 1971 appears along the lower margin. No artist name is present, and the work is offered as unsigned or artist unidentified.

The verso is blank, with no additional inscriptions or labels present. The piece is presented unframed.

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Condition Report

Overall good condition. Paper shows natural deckled edges and light surface toning consistent with age. Minor scattered spots visible upon close inspection. No major tears or losses observed. Verso unmarked. Not examined outside of images provided.

Dimensions: H:22in L:15in