A large pastel composition of extraordinary color intensity — one of the most densely worked and chromatically saturated works in the collection. A large animal form — dog-like, with four legs, a visible snout and ear, and an eye — occupies the lower center, its body rendered in a full palette of blues, greens, purples, oranges, and pinks applied in overlapping layers. The animal is not naturalistic but Fauvist: the same multi-hue body treatment Sidney applied to the blue-haired portrait and the Bacchus figure, here given to a dog or similar creature.
Above and behind the animal, a larger form in pale green-gray with dark outline looms — a second creature or a geological mass or an abstract presence that hovers over the animal without defining its relationship to it. The overall effect is of a vision or a dream — the animal existing in a world where scale and identity are unstable.
The background is an explosion of color: orange at upper left, pink at center, yellow throughout, with dark blue vertical marks and scattered color events filling every zone. This is Sidney's most densely worked pastel ground — no area is left unattended, the entire surface charged with color and energy.
A thin band of white pastel at all four edges — visible in the photograph — creates a frame within the image itself, the characteristic border Sidney sometimes drew. Within this self-generated frame, the composition presses outward in all directions.
The animal's eye — black, forward-facing, clearly rendered — is the emotional center: a creature looking out from within this riot of color with complete animal presence.