Curatorial Narrative “Fickle Fatty’s Fall” by Anonymous occupies a pivotal position within the Art Deco canon of 1915. At this juncture, the artist appears to be drawing upon the formalist legacies of Czanne and Matisse while simultaneously embracing the ornate geometries that would soon define the style. The painting eschews traditional brushwork in favor of a more radical approach, one that relies on an intricate network of planes and forms to generate its visual effects. This decision effectively collapses the distinction between surface and depth, creating an atmosphere of taut, almost palpable tension. Enlarged to 44×63 inches, “Fickle Fatty’s Fall” behaves with a newfound spatial rhythm, its chromatic structure unfolding across the wall like a densely woven tapestry. The palette, initially seeming dissonant, now coheres into a harmonious whole, each color vibrating in relation to its neighbors. The artist’s deployment of Art