Two 1977 lithographs by Ronald Searle serve as meditations on love and loneliness. Using cats to express human emotion, Memory Lane presents an old-fashioned vision of impossibly romantic love. The ornate frame consigns the image to some remote and idealized past.
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| Ronald Searle Memory Lane Edition of 99, 1977 |
Nobody Wants Me is every bit as stark as Memory Lane is lush. It shows the opposite side of the romantic coin: desolation. Yet despite the psychological torment that permeates this setting, there remains one bit of decoration, one ray of hope: it is the framed print of Memory Lane on the wall.
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Ronald Searle
Nobody Wants Me
Edition of 99, 1977
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June 2, 2020 Update: The cover of What! Already? Searle at 90 (2010) is a hand-colored detail of Nobody Wants Me.
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Searle, Ronald. What! Already? Searle at 90: A Celebration with Comments by the Artist and an Introduction by Quentin Blake. Pensionable Parrot Press, 2010.
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