An orangutan looks straight out of this small painting, and the look is the entire subject: patient, mildly amused, older than seems fair. The face skips naturalistic browns and gets built instead from soft greens and deep blues, laid down in visible ridges of paint, acrylic doing as much work as relief as it does as color. Up close the surface is nothing but brushwork; at arm’s length it turns into an animal sizing you up.

The sheet is a true A4, 11.7 × 8.3 in, acrylic on board, which makes this a painting for short distances. It belongs where you meet it at eye level: a desk, a bookshelf, the wall next to a monitor, a dorm room. Any stock A4 frame takes it without custom work.

Small format, still an original. The sheet was painted once and signed; no prints, no editions, no copies. At $105 it ties the catalog’s entry price with exactly one other work, the sleeping sheep on the neighboring A4, and the two hang well together, though each sells on its own.

Send an inquiry to hold it. Ordering runs on a short exchange of messages instead of a cart, and the painting, which is in stock, gets packed into a tube and sent out within a few business days. Shipping is free and tracked across the US. If you would rather have the same character larger, or another animal treated just as seriously, the studio is glad to talk about a commission.