collage and ink on paper, mounted on card

inscribed "no 1" lower right of the collage; signed "max ernst" lower right of the handwritten letter

collage 8 1/4 x 5 3/8 in. (21 x 13.7 cm)
artist's mount 10 5/8 x 7 3/8 in. (27 x 18.7 cm)

Executed in 1948, this work includes a collage mounted alongside an inscribed text by the artist of the poem “Täuscht Mich das Trommelfell,” the English version of which appears in Ernst’s larger work Paramyths.