Gulliver in the country of the Liliputs

Mediums: gouache, watercolour, paper.
Location: Smart Museum of Art, the University of Chicago (the USA).

The painting exhibited in New York at the vernissage of the Vorticists in 1917 was long incorrectly identified as “Dance” (a work with such a name created around the same time is exhibited at the Chicago gallery). The original name is associated with the scale of actively gesturing small figures and a giant background figure. Three little men are depicted very arbitrarily with the help of white lines and geometric elements of irregular shapes. The background for their jumps is the profile of the giant’s face in a rather bright yellow colour with a guessable designation of the eye, nose, and ear.