Despite Gala's absence, Max Ernst continued to paint canvases.
"I think about you constantly and am with you. I've taken your room for myself and am playing with your absence as if you were here."
2.500€
"I think about you constantly and am with you. I've taken your room for myself and am playing with your absence as if you were here."
2.500€
Max ERNST (1891.1976)
Autographed letter signed to Gala Éluard.
One and a quarter pages, large quarto. In German and French.
Megève. Undated [1927]
"I think about you constantly and am with you. I've taken your room for myself and am playing with your absence as if you were here."
Despite Gala's absence, Ernst continues to paint and takes refuge in his work.
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"Dearest little Gala, Did you seriously consider coming to spend 8 or 14 days here with Paul? Why didn't you write to me? What were you doing, all alone and small, at the train station in the middle of the freezing night? I think of you constantly and am with you. I've taken your room for myself and am playing with your absence as if you were here. It's happened to me twice in my dreams. Sometimes I work; I've done another 4 or 5 small paintings since you left , always the same fantastical figures."
I am (from Duhamel's account) aware of what happened in that surreal session the evening of your arrival. One might regret it, if it weren't all so grotesquely childish. I received the PC's reply asking me to send a membership form. The weather was fine, and today it's snowing, snowing. I'm giving Baron, who's leaving today, the genezerine you forgot. Little girl, tell Paul that I like him. And that I'm yours. M
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* Original version of the first paragraph in German: Liebe kleine Gala, Hast du ernstlich daran gedacht nach hier zu kommen, und 8 oder 14 Tage mit Paul hier zu bleiben? Warum schriebst du mir nicht. Was hast du, ganz allein u. klein, am Bahnhof getan, mitten in der kalten Nacht? Ich denk immer an dich und bin bei dir. Ich habe mir dein Zimer genommmen u. game with dinner Abwesenheit, als wärst of yesterday. Dies ist mir zweimal im Traum passiert. However, you can choose between 4 and 5 small pictures of the food you eat, and the diesel will be small in fantastic figures.