Max Ernst
Fleurs-écaille, 1928
Oil on canvas
25 5⁄8 x 31 7⁄8 inches (65 x 81 cm)
© 2018 Max Ernst / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
Painting is not for me either decorative amusement, or the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation. –Max Ernst, Beyond Painting, 1947.