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André Breton
French, 1896–1966
Cadavre Exquis
French
Jacques Prévert
French, 1900–1977
Yves Tanguy
American, born France. 1900–1955
Max Morise
French, 1900–1973
Pierre Naville
French, 1900–1993
Jeannette Ducrocq Tanguy
French, 1896–1977
Benjamin Péret
French, 1899–1959
c. 1927
A playful Surrealist collage of cut-and-pasted printed images with pencil, assembling unrelated objects into a dislocated, anthropomorphic “figure” through chance juxtaposition.
An umbrella hovers above a striped travel trunk that reads as a torso, with stacked pans serving as hips and elongated, shadowed legs below—all isolated on a wide, empty beige field that gives the patched-together person a strange, puppet-like presence.
Made using the collaborative 'exquisite corpse' technique, this work illustrates Surrealism’s embrace of collective chance and unexpected combinations to subvert ordinary representation and push collage into new, imaginative territory.
Medium
Cut-and-pasted printed paper and pencil on paper
Dimensions
11 3/8 x 9" (28.9 x 22.9 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Van Gogh Purchase Fund
Accession
267.1937
Palette
Art Terms
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