Europe

A nude figure curls forward, head bowed and knees drawn up, rendered in pale flesh tones against a chaotic dark ground of smeared and dripping paint. To the left, a glowing reddish-gold circular form sits half submerged in the darkness, its cracked, scorched-looking surface suggesting a sun, moon, or burning disc.

Blacks, browns and deep reds dominate the heavily textured surface, streaked with drips and scraped passages that read almost like scorched earth. The pale body stands out sharply against the murk, and the thick, gestural handling produces a brooding, elemental mood, tense and enigmatic rather than descriptive.