Description

Painting on a piece of arches paper, in vertical orientation; depicts two water pythons. Painting background is dark brown, that lightens to yellow-brown in centre; the two serpents, curled around one another, span the entire height. Snakes have thick bodies that narrow at the neck and tail; both have triangular heads and oval-shaped eyes, with white pupils. Small, white forked tongues extend from mouths, into bottom corners of painting. Bodies are decorated with rectangles filled with cross-hatching; rectangles are maroon, cross-hatching done in black and white. Lines dividing rectangles are maroon, outlined in black. The snakes are curled around maroon ovals, outlined in white. Back of painting has a stamp on it; pencil inscriptions underneath.