McKenzie, Lucy. Replica of Trial and Error, 1939 by Meredith Frampton.

The combination of materials on window dressing pioneers with examples of fine art shows how this discipline crisscrosses borders. Lucy McKenzie's copy of a Meredith Frampton painting features the head of a lay figure, but it is also constructed rather like one of Gene Moore’s Tiffany & Co. windows, with both relying on the same pseudo-surreal compositional tricks. Surrealisms assimilation into mainstream culture via forms like window display was its death bell. The Frampton replica also underscores that the leitmotif of trompe l’oeil and counterfeiting is central to Atelier E.B’s practice.

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