In the early 1950s Warhol experimented with marbling paper. A friend commented that Warhol’s “bathtub was usually full of paper he was marbling, leading friends to believe he never used it himself”. This work is an example of Warhol combining a blotted-line drawing with a marbleised background. It shows three figures looking out of the composition as a veil of grey descends from the top of the paper. This creates a distinctly ominous feeling, reinforced by the vacant eyes of the figures. In 1954 Warhol featured in both group and solo shows at the Loft Gallery in New York. Among the works he exhibited were many of his marbleised drawings and other folded and crumpled paper pieces displayed on the walls, ceiling and floor.