The sun in his jewelry box

Mediums: oil, canvas.
Location: The Peggy Guggenheim Collection (Venice, Italy).

The painting depicts the artist’s favorite sea, where the wavy gray-purple surface of the ocean, turning on the horizon into a milky fog, completely merges with the sky. On the surface of the water, there are several strange figures, one of which resembles a yellow tower, and the rest look like a pile of debris. These figures, which Andre Breton called “objects,” are quite solid. They have shadows and a certain structure, but exist in their own world with a distorted perspective with zero gravity. The artist took the strange name of the picture, completely unrelated to its plot, from the records in the history of the mentally ill, which he often studied in order to find the most original and outlandish name for his works.