Original Painting: Monolith by James Edward Scherbarth

Red scribble, blue moon, yellow smear and a scrap of tissue holding the whole thing together.

Original Painting: Monolith is an oil and cold wax work on paper by James Edward Scherbarth (1949-2021), dated 2015 and signed and dated en verso. Combining cold wax paint with collage lets an artist build up translucent layers, so that one color shows through the next. On a large white sheet, a dense cluster of oxblood red marks hangs over patches of deep blue and mustard yellow. A torn rectangle of brownish tissue overlaps them, with a curved cutout and a ragged tail trailing below. It is 11 inches wide and 14 high.

A lot of weather for such a small patch of paper.