Lot Essay
When one isolates and analyzes the individual forms which comprise the costumes of the three figures in Game of Chance No. 2, they resemble the amplified organic shapes observable in Seligmann's Abstract-Créationist and early Surrealist period. Indeed, the ? of the artist's style throughout his career moves from relative simplicity to layered complexity, and then near the end of his life, back to simpler forms.