Painted in 2009, Guignol presents a figure caught in a state of theatrical unease, rendered in acrylic on watercolor paper mounted over linen canvas. Stephanie Pryor's chosen title invokes the French puppet tradition of Grand Guignol, that long history of grotesque performance and dark spectacle, and the work carries that sensibility into painted form with quiet, unsettling precision. The layered support lends the surface a particular tension, the absorbent grain of watercolor paper pulling against the structural weight of the canvas beneath, producing a quality of mark that feels simultaneously spontaneous and deliberate. Pryor works at the intersection of figuration and psychological portraiture, and Guignol exemplifies the mood of controlled instability that defines her strongest paintings from this period. The composition holds its subject in a way that resists easy comfort, inviting close attention to the passages of color and the loaded ambiguity of expression or gesture that give the image its charge. At 121.9 by 91.4 centimeters, the work commands a wall without overwhelming it, occupying a scale that keeps the viewer in intimate dialogue with the painted surface. Signed by the artist and offered through NAVA Contemporary, Guignol represents a confident and cohesive example of Pryor's practice at a moment when her engagement with performance, psychology, and material process was producing some of her most resonant work. For collectors drawn to figurative painting with genuine conceptual underpinning, this is a piece that deepens with sustained looking.