1947
Gaouche on composition board
20-1/4" x 24 1/8 "
Bequest of Hudson Walker from the Ione and Hudson Walker Collection
Lawrence wrote that this painting, like his other genre scenes, was "mostly autobiographical in content, pertaining to
and about my own personal experiences...It is a street scene of peddlers selling dolls which dance. The doll dances as it is
manipulated by an invisible string."
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