From a vermilion orange surface in the lower left half of the picture, which powerfully drives the gaze, the eye is led over a spiralling staircase on which there is a figure that seems to develop the shape of the staircase from within itself. At the end of the staircase, an oval appears in the upper part of the picture, in the cut-out of which an intense blue appears. The clear light-dark contrast of the shape of the staircase softens the prominence of the complementary orange-blue colour fields and makes the areas of the picture appear equally clear.

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Artwork page for ‘Circular stair’, Ruth Hillebrand Dane. ‘Circular stair’ is a painting in oil on canvas of the series ‘Lichtspielhaus’, its size measures 180 x 130 centimetres