Gerald Murphy, together with his wife Sara, was a central figure in the expatriate “Lost Generation” of 1920s Paris, as well as friends and patrons to artists and writers including F. Scott Fitzgerald, Pablo Picasso, Cole Porter, Ernest Hemingway, and Fernand Léger. In a brief but influential career from 1921 to 1929, Murphy produced a small group of large-scale, semi-abstract paintings that anticipated Pop Art through their inventive use of everyday objects. This work on paper, likely intended as a stage-set design, presents Cubist forms that hint at familiar objects while remaining deliberately unidentifiable. Murphy never sold his work during his lifetime, and drawings or preparatory studies are extremely rare.