Canvases are about 28 inches wide and 19 inches high.
One day there were new, clunky white planters in the stockade district and then, mysteriously, in October they became canvases for about 37 stenciled goats, red on white, like ghost goats from another world.
On the first of my visits to the studio, last fall, two blank canvases, each about six feet by five and a half feet, stood against the wall on the left.
The sole exception, for me, is a group of four large canvases, each about seven by five feet, with which, in 1930, Miró announced a farewell to painting, in favor of collage and found-object, assembled sculpture.
In drab colors on canvases measuring about 7 feet by 13 feet, Mr. Hellmich paints sharp-edged, well-composed pictures of empty modern architectural situations: a spacious train station; the entry to an apartment building below a wall of decorative tiles; industrial ventilators on a rooftop; the vertiginous view from the top of a high escalator down to a shadowy, subterranean hallway.
Extra lying-about canvases for whimsical moods and flashes of curiosity are essential.
There were racks of canvases, art books strewn about, uncleaned palettes, photos of relatives and postcards pinned on the wall.
Onus' canvases, most measuring about 4 by 5 feet, are priced from about $1,600; smaller paintings cost from about $800.
Canvases are usually about 4 by 5 feet and prices begin at about $1,200.
And what, in theory, could be lighter than standing among swooping exotic butterflies in Hirst's 1991 installation In and Out of Love, the creatures hatching from pupae stuck to canvases and floating about the room, living and dying in the space?
