Mahogany Intaglio II

A hand-painted work on paper, the Mahogany Intaglio II carries the quiet authority of a piece conceived with as much attention to surface as to subject — its warm, deeply considered palette suggesting the same gravitas one finds in antique engravings and scholarly collections. At twenty-two inches tall and eighteen wide, the composition occupies its frame with confident restraint, neither overwhelming a wall nor retreating from it. From the atelier of John Richard, it is the kind of work that rewards a considered placement: above a console in an entrance hall, or anchoring the smaller wall of a well-appointed study.