Reference
The running figure: William Rimmer,
Flight and Pursuit, 1872. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Re. George (Deem)'s painting
Picasso's Head, the poem I mentioned is
OZYMANDIAS OF EGYPT
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,
Half sunk, a shatter'd visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamp'd on these lifeless things,
The hand that mock'd them and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal these words appear:
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1817)
The running figure quotes William Rimmer's painting
Flight and Pursuit, 1872, oil on canvas, Boston Museum of Fine Arts.
(Ronald Vance, letter to Pavel Zoubok, April 17th 2000)