Friday, May 21, 2010

unfinished dancers

Unfinished pencil and tempera sketch, ca. 1950-51 (Flora's Mexican sojourn), found in artist's notebook. There's no evidence the work was refined or adapted for any other purpose. The ghost image in the background is the bleedthrough of a series of figures on the reverse.

The left figure above has some female attributes, the right some vague echoes of manhood. Regarding the lady, we won't speculate on what's protruding from her butt or clustered in her belly, nor will we venture an opinion on the chopsticks positioned in her crotch.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Could this article offer a clue as to the mysterious object?

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/1054161/mum-dies-after-doctors-miss-toilet-brush-in-bum