Artists of the Day: Leonora Carrington, Andre Breton, Max Ernst and Marcel Duchamp

 Hermann Landshoff 📸: Leonora Carrington, Andre Breton, Max Ernst and Marcel Duchamp, New York, with Morris Hirshfield’s painting Nude at the Window (1941) at Peggy Guggenheim’s town-house, 1942

N.B check out Leonora here the understated sitting position belying her physical statement! The surrealists steeped in the new psychological work of Freud and embraced the symbolism and Oedipal myths 

Breton for me was a rather risible figure and less of an artist than the rest, Dali, Duchamp, Ray, Carrington, Ernst, etc rather he would try to control and lead the loose group by writing the Surrealist Manifesto which most and Dali in particular rebelled against - poor Andre didn’t quite GET it! The actions and explorations of all the artists WERE surrealism they didn’t need a Manifesto!