#469 The Lost Jockey (1947-1948)

 

He has been lost for so
long that the trees – once
trimmed & turned into
bilboquets — are now

growing branches again.
Lost for so long that the
painter's style has under-
gone several transform-

ations in the interim. This 
from a classical period; 
airy, pastel-toned. A scene
posed, as if disposed 

by a dramaturge, with 
the jockey center of 
the set, finally about 
to exit, stage left.