The satirical universe of Robert Storm Petersen (1882-1949) is known in particular from his series of drawings and text in newspapers such as Ekstra Bladet and the daily newspaper B.T., but he also painted watercolours and oil paintings, and drew many posters throughout his career. The clown is an example of many on Storm P.'s fascination with the circus world's funny man. Here depicted with focus on the clown figure's ambiguous, tragicomic creature, which is made visible in the clown's devil-like shadow image on the wall behind him.