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This work can also be thought of as an amalgam of Abstract Expresisonism and the Surrealism of the 1920's and 1930's. Four distinct pictures are incorporated into the total composition; the two pictures in color employ the characteristic Abstract Expressionist style (the accidental effect, the drippings of color, the lack of recognizable subject matter) while the two smaller "pictures" hark back to comparable images Ernst used some forty yars ago in his black and white collages for "La Femme 100 Tetes", "Une Semaine de Bonte"' and other books by the artist.

Source: Bulletin, September-October 1970.


DimensionsSheet: 25 3/8 × 18 5/8 in. (64.5 × 47.3 cm)
Image: 24 3/4 × 18 1/2 in. (62.9 × 47 cm)
Accession Number 1970.7
Classificationsprint
CopyrightARS
Inscriptionsmax ernst (l/r in pencil); 4/70 (l/l in pencil)
Edition4/70
Dent Prompte
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Printemps du ciel (Springtime of the Sky)
Max Ernst
1963
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
La clé des chants, 8 (The Key of Songs, 8) from the unbound printer's proof of "Une Semaine de Bonté, Cinquième Cahier (A Week of Kindness, Fifth Volume)" (recto, left)
Max Ernst
1933
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
L'interieur de la vue, Premier poème visible 2 (The Interior of Sight, First Visible Poem, 2) from the unbound printer's proof of "Une Semaine de Bonté, Cinquième Cahier (A Week of Kindness, Fifth Volume)" (recto, left)
Max Ernst
1933
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
L'interieur de la vue, Premier poème visible 4 (The Interior of Sight, First Visible Poem, 4) from the unbound printer's proof of "Une Semaine de Bonté, Cinquième Cahier (A Week of Kindness, Fifth Volume)" (recto, left)
Max Ernst
1933
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
L'interieur de la vue, Premier poème visible 6 (The Interior of Sight, First Visible Poem, 6) from the unbound printer's proof of "Une Semaine de Bonté, Cinquième Cahier (A Week of Kindness, Fifth Volume)" (recto, left)
Max Ernst
1933
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Le rire du coq, 12 (The Cock's Laugh, 12) from the unbound printer's proof of "Une Semaine de Bonté, Cinquième Cahier (A Week of Kindness, Fifth Volume)" (recto, left)
Max Ernst
1933
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
La clé des chants, 2 (The Key of Songs, 2) from the unbound printer's proof of "Une Semaine de Bonté, Cinquième Cahier (A Week of Kindness, Fifth Volume)" (recto, left)
Max Ernst
1933
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
L'interieur de la vue, Troisième poème visible 2 (The Interior of Sight, First Visible Poem, 2) from the unbound printer's proof of "Une Semaine de Bonté, Cinquième Cahier (A Week of Kindness, Fifth Volume)" (recto, left)
Max Ernst
1933
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
La clé des chants, 10 (The Key of Songs, 10) from the unbound printer's proof of "Une Semaine de Bonté, Cinquième Cahier (A Week of Kindness, Fifth Volume)" (recto, left)
Max Ernst
1933
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Le rire du coq, 10 (The Cock's Laugh, 10) from the unbound printer's proof of "Une Semaine de Bonté, Cinquième Cahier (A Week of Kindness, Fifth Volume)" (recto, left)
Max Ernst
1933
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Le rire du coq, 2 (The Cock's Laugh, 2), from the unbound printer's proof of "Une Semaine de Bonté, Cinquième Cahier (A Week of Kindness, Fifth Volume)" (recto, left)
Max Ernst
1933
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Le rire du coq, 1 (The Cock's Laugh, 1) from the unbound printer's proof of "Une Semaine de Bonté, Cinquième Cahier (A Week of Kindness, Fifth Volume)" (recto, left)
Max Ernst
1933