THE MONKEY LAB. “This was also the period when Laurent painted this remarkable scene, complete with bespeckled monkeys and a dunce-capped violin flying around the room on an umbrella. The pots and urns have come alive upon the wall while a demon calmly tends the fire spit amid a number of equally strange apparitions. It is not clear what to make of the fact that Laurent’s dreaming and painting coincided with his work on opium extracts.” (See charming picture in text).
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022