The suburban backyard series also includes drawings. This one is approximately 12 x 9 inches.
In the biography of the Polish painter Josef Czapski by Eric Karpeles, one encounters the story of Degas and the poet Mallarme. Degas complained that he had too many ideas for a sonnet he was working on. Mallarme replied: "But Degas, it's not with ideas that you make verses, but with words." Czapski, upon hearing this story again, responded with the famous words that Ingres urged upon Degas: "Make lines, lots of lines!"
