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Scary Monsters V: vertical canvas crowded with faces, beaks and snouts outlined in black, crossed by broad turquoise and violet ribbons, a yellow-green form with upturned points at the top, a flesh-pink ground, a small dark silhouette with outstretched arms at top left, work by Robert Bibeau

Scary Monsters V

Broad ribbons of violet and turquoise, outlined in black, wind through a population of beaks and snouts. The flesh-pink ground shows between the figures. At the upper left, a small silhouette with outstretched arms holds the edge of the canvas.

Earlier state

The same work, photographed at an earlier stage of its making.

Scary Monsters V, earlier state: the composition before the colour reworkings
Possible readings

Pellan painted his Bestiaires in oil and India ink, the colour always carried by a black line that holds it in. The same order governs here, applied to a crowd that nothing sorts: the legible creature and the scribble share one rank.