In a landscape the color of extinct lava, brown, green and brick red volutes intertwine and intertwine. They evoke both a giant winged lizard plunged into sleep in mid-flight, and the phantasmagoria that populate the mind of a sleeping lizard.
The work is framed in an American black wooden box.
This painting is characteristic of Marc Janson's style in the early 1970s. The palette is intense, the dark background highlights the sinuosities and convolutions which increasingly populate the painter's work. Yet there are still elements that suggest concrete forms, such as the volcanoes and the horizon line, and the construction is powerful and rigorously conducted.