The Crossing of Mr. and Mrs. X / El Cruce Entre El Señor y La Señora X

“His paintings from the early 1960s draw directly on the structures and gambits of works he admired in Spain. In The Crossing of Mr. and Mrs. X (1964), the segmented space, oddly shaped hillocks, and stalky trees with long, branchless trunks seem directly indebted to Bosch. The work’s weirdly mysterious narrative seems like those of early Renaissance predella paintings; the deliberately awkward, juxtaposed areas are like theater backdrops for an inscrutable dream.”

– Michael Duncan, from the Crocker Catalogue for “Testament of the Spirit”