This painting was executed at the request of Marcel Duchamp as organizer of the exhibition “First papers of Surrealism”, held at Reid Mansion, New York, 1942
Signed lower right corner
James Goodman Gallery, New York
Isidore Ducasse
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, “Max Ernst, a retrospective”, April 7 – July 10, 2005, n°140
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