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This work clearly shows the influence of great American Pop artists such as Andy Warhol and Robert Rauschenberg, with their repeated motifs, collaged photographic and popular images, often set within a larger grid-like composition. Lecturing extensively in America, Rothenstein would have been aware of the burgeoning Civil Rights movement and the dramatic assassination attempt in 1972 on Governor George Wallace, a staunch supporter of segregation, which left him paralysed and wheelchair-bound. The young black man on the left of the image, wears clothing reminiscent of prison uniforms, while the girl’s smiling face on the carrier bag invokes billboard advertising. The angular forms of the easel to the right are ghostly reminders of the stark forms of the electric chair foregrounded in Warhol’s prints and paintings of the same period.