Facilité (Facility) or Loplop présente (Lolop Introduces)
Max Ernst (Brühl 1891 – Paris 1976)
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
1931
Materials
Pencil on paper cardboard; collaged lithograph on paper, marbled paper, and pen and ink on blotting paper
Measurements
675 x 527 mm
Order this imageCollection
2 Willow Road, London
NT 112456
Summary
Collage and pencil on paper cardboard, Facilité (Facility) or Loplop présente (Lolop Introduces) by Max Ernst, (Brühl 1891 – Paris 1976), 1931, signed bottom right. A collage comprised of pencil drawn and multimedia collaged elements. 'Loplop', the artist's bird-like alter-ego, is depicted in pencil on the paper substrate, taking the form of a disembodied head and tail within a network of geometric lines and again, more elaborately, within the anatomical print pasted just off centre. The plate is taken from the Anatomie Des Formes Extérieures Du Corps Humain A L'Usage Des Peintres Et Des Sculpteurs Par Le Docteur J. Fau. Atlas Composé de 24 Planches Dessinées D'Après Nature, et lithographiées par M. Léveillé, élève de M. Jacob. published by Julien Fau (1849). The plate depicts a nude woman standing in contrapposto, her proper left hand resting upon a plinth upon which a nude child stands, also in contrapposto, and with its proper right arm raised. The child's skeleton is depicted directly below, within an outline. A rectangular piece of blotting paper with pen and ink numbers, (?automatic) writing and splotches of ink is pasted at an oblique angle to the right of the anatomical print. Pasted below it is a rectangular piece of marbled paper. Within a simple wooden frame, with bevelled edges angled inwards, glazed.
Provenance
Acquired in 1934 from Max Ernst by Ernö Goldfinger. Owned by Ernö Goldfinger and Ursula Ruth Blackwell, also known as Mrs Ernö Goldfinger. Purchased by the National Trust in 1994 with support from the Art Fund, and other charitable foundations and private donors.
Credit line
2 Willow Road,London, The Ernö Goldfinger Collection (National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
On back.: A multitude of gallery and museum labels providing a history of the loaning of this piece to exhibitions. Each label is an adhesive paper label, printed with details of the artwork and it's provenance as belonging to the Goldfinger family.
Makers and roles
Max Ernst (Brühl 1891 – Paris 1976), artist
Exhibition history
Max Ernst Retrospective, Albertina, Vienna, 2013 Max Ernst Retrospective, Fondation Beyeler, Basel, 2013
References
Spies and Metken 1975 - 2007, Werner Spies, Sigrid and Günter Metken (eds.) Max Ernst: Oeuvre-Katalog, Cologne, 1975 - 2007, S/M 1769
