wax crayon frottage on paper

signed 'max ernst' lower right

image 30.4 x 23.5 cm (11 7/8 x 9 1/4 in.)
sheet 36.8 x 28.8 cm (14 1/2 x 11 3/8 in.)

Executed in 1972.

Dr. Jürgen Pech has confirmed the authenticity of this work, which will be included in the supplementary volume of the complete work of Max Ernst now in preparation, edited by Prof. Dr. Werner Spies in collaboration with Dr. Jürgen Pech and Dr. Sigrid Metken.

This work was used as a source for the colour lithograph in the magazine XXe Siècle, no. XLII, Paris, June 1974.