Patricia Gagic The Sphynx Revealed 36×36
The Sphynx Revealed by Patricia Karen Gagic is an original oil on canvas measuring 36″ high × 36″ wide — a square canvas, and the collection’s riddle. The reveal happens the way real excavation does: not all at once, but in passes of light over something that has waited a long time in the dark. Pale gold moves across a black ground like a torch over carved stone, and what it shows depends on where you stand and how long you stay.
Original Abstract Oil Painting by Patricia Karen Gagic
The ground is deep, worked black — pooled, stippled, and scraped, with the history of the surface showing through everywhere. Across it sweep broad masses of champagne gold and bone, dragged with silver-grey and crosshatched by fine incised lines like tool marks. The paint is spattered and pocked in passages, dense and smooth in others, so the whole square reads as relief lit from an angle. And at the edges of the light, the painting keeps its secrets in colour: flashes of iridescent blue at the upper corners, violet at the lower right, small warm notes of rose buried in the black — glints that appear and vanish as your viewing angle changes.
Colour, Texture, and Technique
The palette is built on black, champagne gold, bone, and silver-grey, sparked with iridescent blue, violet, and buried rose. Gagic builds the surface in physical layers — spatter, scrape, drag, incise — then finishes with a high gloss that makes the darks reflective, so the painting behaves like polished stone: light moves across it rather than merely landing on it. The square format keeps every edge equally in play.
Where This Artwork Works Best
At 36″ × 36″, this square canvas is superbly flexible — over a console or sideboard, in a stairwell, a study, or paired with furniture where a vertical would fight the wall. It is dramatic against deep-toned rooms, luxurious with brass and black marble, and quietly commanding on white. For a collector of Canadian contemporary abstraction, it is the enigma of the 2026 collection — the one guests ask about.
Artwork Details
- Artist: Patricia Karen Gagic
- Title: The Sphynx Revealed
- Medium: Oil on Canvas
- Size: 36″ h × 36″ w
- Subject: Abstracts
- Style: Contemporary Abstract, Textural, Metallic and Iridescent Accents
- Art Category: Original Painting
- Framing: Framed with Artist Frame (black float frame)
Care and Display
Dust gently with a soft, dry microfiber cloth. Avoid abrasive cleaners, prolonged direct sunlight, and areas of extreme humidity so the layered oil surface and gloss finish retain their depth and shine.
Framing and Shipping
This painting arrives finished in the artist’s black float frame, ready to hang. Professional packing, crating, local pickup, and shipping options are available — contact the gallery to arrange delivery or a virtual placement preview on your own wall.
