Back in New York an irresistable invitation: to make a frontispiece for an admired poet. For these superb poems nothing I could do seemed good enough. Yet I remembered a French leaf....

     –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. 103.