Bas Dirks

Portrait oil on paper, a dense dark block on bare margins. Yellow and red burn under a black scaffold of bars and verticals; a single white vertical stroke falls through the middle of the mass like a plumb line. Heavy, hot and centred, with paper breathing at the edges.
No. 229Oil on paper, 42 × 59.4 cm (16.5 × 23.4 in), 2026