Two Circulating Figures with Stairs c1945

Ink
21.4 x 28 cm
Oesophageal Image on reverse, signed with studio stamp
Estate number LB70

The surreal works come from everyday scenes combined with medical details. In 1945 Bayliss worked with Harry Freeman FRCS developing a camera for photographing the interior of the stomach. The tattered banners and desolate battlefields hark back to the symbolism of Urs Graf

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