Untitled

About this work

You see two dark, jagged shapes pressed against a pale background, like shadows trying to climb a wall. This print is part of a series the artist called *The Impossible Step*—a title that fits the feeling of something stuck mid-motion. Serra-Badué made it late in life, after decades of painting Cuban street scenes and portraits. Here, he stripped everything away, leaving just form and tension. To see how lithography can feel this raw, look up more works in The Museum of Modern Art.