Provenance
Atelier des Künstlers / Artist studio
Geschenk an / Gift to Jean Cocteau Collection
Geschenk an / Gift to Nicole Stephane (Schauspielerin und Muse von / actress and muse of Jean Cocteau)
Privatsammlung / Private collection, Paris
Exhibitions
Arte Y Cine, 120 anos de intercambios, Caixa Forum, Barcelona, 16. Dezember 2016 – 26. März 2017 / December 16, 2016 – March 26, 2017
Arte Y Cine, 120 anos de intercambios, Caixa Forum, Madrid, 26. April – 20. August 2017 / April 26 – August 20, 2017
Sigmund Freud. Du regard à l’écoute, Musée d’Art et d’Histoire du Judaïsme, Paris, 10. Oktober 2018 – 10. Februar 2019 / October 10, 2018 – February 10, 2019
Diese Collage wird 2020 auch in der von Jean Clair kuratierten Ausstellung Sigmund Freud, Du Regard à l’Ecoute im Kunstmuseum Winterthur gezeigt werden.
This work will notably be included in an exhibition dedicated to Sigmund Freud, Sigmund Freud, Du Regard à l’Ecoute, at the Kunstmuseum Winterthur in 2020, organized by Jean Clair.
Bibliography
Arte Y Cine, 120 anos de intercambios, Ausstellungskatalog / Exhibition catalogue Caixa Forum, Barcelona, Madrid 2016, S. / p.146, n°200
Einführung:
Examining a catalogue of anthropological, paleontological and mineral specimens in 1919, Max Ernst experienced, as he wrote in his autobiography thirty years later, “an illusive succession of contradictory images, double, triple, and multiple images, piling up on each other with the persistence and rapidity which are peculiar to love memories and visions of half-sleep.” He set out to inspire the same in others. Collage offered Ernst the possibility of art composed not of one single mind but from fragments of many. Here, he presents cut-out photographs of many of his friends and acquaintances from the Parisian surrealist group, among them Alberto Giacometti, Man Ray and Salvador Dalí.
Ernst did not simply paste together bits of catalogues and photos. He began to incorporate them into paintings of his own, bending their meaning in strange and wonderful directions.
In this work, Ernst portrays a man identified as Sigmund Freud.
