Rendered in ink on paper, this 2018 work by Christina Quarles presents the fluid, entangled figuration that has come to define her practice. Within a compact 33 by 48.3 centimetre sheet, Quarles constructs bodies that resist fixed boundaries, their forms merging, bending, and dissolving across the surface in a way that refuses easy spatial resolution. The ink medium amplifies this quality, its inherent directness and irreversibility lending the composition an urgency that larger, more elaborated works can sometimes soften. Line here carries tremendous weight, simultaneously describing and destabilizing the figures it traces. Quarles works at the intersection of painting, drawing, and critical theory, channeling questions of embodiment, identity, and the instability of selfhood into images that feel at once intimate and philosophically charged. Her practice has attracted sustained institutional attention, with solo exhibitions and acquisitions at major museums internationally, yet works on paper like this one offer something distinct from her larger painted canvases. They document the essential vocabulary of her thinking in a concentrated, immediate form. Signed by the artist and offered through the Sexy Beast Benefit Auction, this piece represents a rare opportunity to acquire an early work that demonstrates her mature visual language already fully in motion. Prospective buyers should note that pickups and shipments within California are subject to applicable sales tax.