Edward Gorey An Exhibition Puzzle

$30.00 at Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.

Edward Gorey (American, 1925–2000) Untitled, 1965 All of Edward Gorey's characters inhabit a uniquely enigmatic world, where situations and relationships are alluded to but usually not explained. Take this group: the bird in the lower left holds a banner in its beak, declaring “An Exhibition.” One wonders: have they all arrived to see a show, or are they the show? And what’s with the guy floating above in his nightgown, let alone the masked man on the red bicycle? On the far right—that must be Gorey himself…