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About this work

You see a tangle of stairs, railings, and landings in soft pinks, blues, and grays. The lines look smudged, like the artist drew them fast and then rubbed them with a finger. Szafran spent years drawing the same stairwell in his Paris studio. He said he wasn’t interested in the stairs themselves—just the way light and space bent around them. The pastel lets him blend colors right on the paper, so the edges feel alive, not sharp. If you like how this feels, try the technique: pastel.