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ananda

(28,858 posts)
Thu Oct 15, 2015, 03:14 PM Oct 2015

I need help re Eluard and Ernst

Hi,

I need help figuring out a Max Ernst painting next to Paul Eluard's poem "Max Ernst." It's a color print of a painting, presumably by Ernst, with a big orange vertical fish with a black and white scene coming out of its mouth. I can't find that painting anywere on the net and I want to identify it. It's in Eluard's book Capital of Pain translated by Richard M. Weisman.

"Max Ernst" is the first poem in the section called Repetitions, and even though the poem does refer to fish and the white circles in the black sky, sort of, its imagery doesn't exactly correspond to that painting. I would like to get a better idea about the painting that was put next to it, and about the poem itself.

If you could help me with this, I'd really appreciate it. Thanks.

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