According to friends, the Chapmans - who themselves chose what art work to display - delivered their crude inflatable
dolls effigy so late in the day the gallery was unable to refuse it.
Smith also singled out Diego Rivera's clunky Lucila y los judas (Lucila and the Judas
Dolls, 1954), a macabre vision of the actress Lucila Balzaretti reclining with her pink sun dress open (there is a touch of Balthus in the style) while the dolls named for Judas Iscariot that are burned in effigy during Mexican festivals, dangle above
Dolls, 1954), a macabre vision of the actress Lucila Balzaretti reclining with her pink sun dress open (there is a touch of Balthus in the style) while the
dolls named for Judas Iscariot that are burned in effigy during Mexican festivals, dangle above
dolls named for Judas Iscariot that are burned in
effigy during Mexican festivals, dangle above her.
According to The Art League's news release, the show «explores the themes of clowns and
dolls, human
effigies, and painted faces, integrating human emotions and passions with allegorical storytelling.