Vintage 1960s Max Ernst “Celebes” Surrealist Swiss Art Print

A vintage mid century reproduction of Max Ernst's Celebes (1921) measuring 9.25" x 12.25" on thick glossy paper with hints of patina. 

Printed in Switzerland in the 1960s.

Notes on the work of art at the time of printing:

MAX ERNST (1891). CELEBES, 1921. (50 × 43 ½") ROLAND PENROSE COLLECTION, LONDON. - This picture, with another of the same period, dipus Rex, was seen and bought by Paul Eluard when he visited Cologne in 1921.

This led to the collaboration of poet and painter in the following year, when Ernst illustrated Eluard's Malheurs des Immortels. Celebes, also known as The Elephant Celebes, is a cauldron on stumps, with bull's head and suction pipe, whose disturbing bulk fills the picture, just leaving room for a headless female torso (a preview of La Femme Cent Têtes) and some buzzling devices which add their mysterious logic to this unaccountable meeting in the desert beneath a sky traversed by green fishes.