Oil on canvas

Homage to Edvard Munch's painting Puberty (1895), which is illustrated in the open book.

Homage to Franz Hals’ (1580-1666) Regentesses of the Old Men’s Almshouse (1664), which is quoted in the background. The sitters were recruited through Plymouth Age Concern. Lenkiewicz’s diary for 1979 comments modestly on his own effort, "Poor Hals!"