The Serenade for the Doll after Claude Debussy, Gift Wrapped Doll #29

“Rosenquist has managed to constantly surprise us, to make us look at things twice. His work is multivalent. It is precise yet ambiguous, reverberating in ways that more explicit works cannot. He has tackled some of the most important themes of his time. He has taken on the human condition, and yet he has remained idiosyncratic, antilogical.”
(W. Hopps, “Connoisseur of the Inexplicable,” James Rosenquist: A Retrospective, exh. cat., Solomon R. Guggenheim, New York, 2003, p. 15)