Gala Éluard by Max Ernst
This evocative portrait reveals the deeply intertwined personal and artistic lives of members of the Surrealist circle and depicts
the movement’s fascination with dreamlike states. Max Ernst, who painted this work based on Man Ray’s photograph of Éluard’s eyes. With curious forms rising from her unfurling forehead, Éluard becomes an imagined embodiment of Surrealism’s wide-eyed interest in art’s power to explore the mysterious territories of the unconscious mind.
The portrait completed five years before Gala and Salvador Dalí
would first meet. Eventually she would become Dali's main model
and Dali himself would often depict the powerful "Gaze of Gala"
(1924) : Max Ernst (Brühl, Germany 1891–1976 Paris, France)
Oil on canvas - 32 x 25 3/4 in. (81.3 x 65.4 cm)
#Дали by : John Barous 2015 ©
Docent, The Salvador Dali Museum, Saint Petersburg, FL. (1996-2011)