The following text was provided to media outlets to promote the exhibition: "A painter of the School of Paris—Lancelot Ney—will have his first one-man show in the United States at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The exhibition, consisting of thirty-four oils, will be held in the New Gallery of the Hayden Memorial Library May 23 through July 1.
(...) Principally an abstract painter, Ney, however, champions the right of the artist to maintain flexibility of approach to this art; in fact, he believes it is the artist's duty to remain free and unencumbered by strict rules and formulas of expression.
Beside figural pictures he made abstract painting, ink drawings, etchings.
In his last years he studied more than 500 Chinese characters under the influence of them and Far Eastern art he made brush drawings.