Roger Woods
a nocturne with nudes sleeping before a burning town by the sea
It is not a particularly appealing work, the drawing awkward and the design unbalanced by peculiar scale shifts and ill-distributed masses. What does appeal to me is the mysterious (and unexplained) title, and the legend, apparently without foundation, that the engraving was after a lost work of Georgione, who left but twelve works. I wonder if I will manage to match this, given the destruction I have wrought on virtually all my work over thirty years of painting. A similar amount of my time has been devoted to the reading of the psychoanalytical literature, and many interpretations and associations were suggested by Raphael’s Dream, resulting in five ( so far) variations on the theme.
