Bas Dirks

Portrait sheet in chalk, pastel and oil, golden yellow nearly all over: hay-coloured scribbles and washes build a warm mass, russet and sienna arcs sweep through the upper right, and a fan of combed blue strokes cuts in at the lower right — the sheet's one cool note. White paper breathes at the edges. Ripe, sun-warmed, dense.
No. 235Chalk, pastel and oil on paper, 50 × 65 cm (19.7 × 25.6 in), 2026