Portrait of Max Ernst

Mediums: oil, canvas.
Location: private collection.

Surrealist Max Ernst played an important role in the life of Leonora Carrington and had a huge impact on her work. The portrait was created the escape of Max and Leonors from France at the beginning of the Second World War. The artist depicted her lover who was much older that she in a form of a grey haired man in a strange outrageous dress and with an extinct lantern in his hands. The speechless icy desert and the frozen white horse symbolizing Leonora herself tell about the cooling of their relationship, and possibly about the hostility of the world.