A quadriptych on the alchemical opus. Four panels, read together or separately, tracking the stages by which a base substance becomes something else. The pictorial language is plainly alchemical: the work does not paraphrase the tradition into decoration; it draws directly from the established figures of nigredo, albedo, citrinitas, and rubedo.

Symbolic Register

The four-panel form mirrors the four traditional stages of the Great Work. Each panel carries the figures appropriate to its stage — the dissolution, the washing, the yellowing, the reddening — handled with the restraint of source material rather than the flourish of fantasy illustration. The viewer who reads the tradition will recognise the figures. The viewer who does not will read the work as a careful sequence of paintings.

Construction

The set is painted on prepared panel and finished as a hung quadriptych. Gold is used where the source figures require it; the rest of the field is held in dark earth. The panels read as a single composition when hung in sequence, and stand independently when separated.

Use

The complete quadriptych is the intended unified composition — sized and constructed for long-form display in a collector's sanctum, library, or temple, wherever a four-panel set has the wall to breathe. The panels also stand on their own, and individual panels may be acquired separately.

Acquisition

The complete quadriptych may be acquired as a unified four-panel work, or individual panels may be acquired separately. Acquisition is by inquiry. Pricing for the complete set and per-panel pricing are confirmed on response, alongside current availability and provenance documentation.