Bas Dirks

Portrait pastel sheet dominated by a heavy blue-violet mass seated low on the page, deep and layered, with magenta and red glowing faintly inside its darkness. Turquoise strokes flare up through and off the mass like spray, woven with gold-ochre verticals; a pink knot presses in at the left edge. Above, cerulean scribbles thin out into bare paper, with two black calligraphic knots at the upper left. Weighty and alive, a dark body burning off its crown.
No. 203Pastel on paper, 29.7 × 42 cm (11.7 × 16.5 in), 2026