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49. ERNST, Max. Microbe: Paysage Immaculé. (Paris). (1946).
(30 x 41 mm). Gouache on paper mounted to card, signed in pencil ‘Max ERNST’ at lower right and inscribed in black ink verso:
‘microbe / paysage immaculé / max ernst, 46 / à Henri Parisot / amicalement max’.
[PROVENANCE: inscribed to Henri Parisot verso; Jacques and Madeleine Matarasso, Nice, their sale (Hôtel Dassault, Paris), October 27, 2000, lot 11; Dr. Arthur Brandt (acquired at the Matarasso sale); sold as part of his collection by Sotheby’s Paris, 2017 (‘Dada, Surréalisme et Au- Delà’].
An original signed microbe by Max Ernst with a presentation to Henri Parisot.
This microbe , executed in 1946, was given by Max Ernst to his fellow Surrealist Henri Parisot: microbe / paysage immaculé / max
ernst, 46 / à Henri Parisot / amicalement max.
Ernst and Parisot had collaborated on, among other works, La Chasse au Snark (The Hunting of the Snark) by Lewis Carroll and the second edition of Les Malheurs des Immortels. Parisot was a noted publisher and translator (he translated Carroll, Coleridge, Edgar Allan Poe among others).
[see also no. 50 for Sept Microbes, Ernst’s text illustrated with a number of microbe paintings].