Scumbled beige paint loosely covers the surface of the composition, allowing dark areas of masonite to break through in patchy swaths. A curved dark line swoops over the left half of the composition, taking an organic uppercase L-shape. A small horizontal dash exists just above the lower portion of the L-shape, while two short and vertical green marks of different lengths are located towards the top of the shape. To the right, a large S-shaped line, rendered with black and transparent red, snakes downwards from the top of the composition, curling over itself in a ribbon like fashion at the end of the S-shape. To the right of the S-shape is a short vertical line which resembles a lowercase I-shape when paired with the short horizontal line which exists above it.
Artwork: 2017.9.1
Untitled
Oil on masonite
Image: 17 3/4 x 22 1/8 inches
Frame: 18 3/16 x 22 5/8 inches
Frame: 18 3/16 x 22 5/8 inches
Gift of Thomas Meyer
René Laubiès, Untitled, n.d. Oil on masonite. Collection of Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center. Gift of Thomas Meyer.