When Poligrafa, the Barcelona publisher, asked for a lithograph for Roland Penrose's book, I thought of Roland and that he would like these buoyant nudes. The line is fast, the colors tender, to please him.

     –from Dorothea Tanning: Hail Delirium! A Catalogue Raisonné of the Artist’s Illustrated Books and Prints, 1942-1991, New York: The New York Public Library, 1992, p. 98.