Long Live Love or Charming Country
- Artist
- Max Ernst, German, 1891–1976
- Date
- 1923
- Material
- Oil on canvas
- Classification
- Paintings
- Collection
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Current Location
- On View, Gallery 210
- Dimensions
- 51 3/4 x 38 5/8 in. (131.4 x 98.1 cm)
framed: 58 1/16 x 45 1/16 x 3 1/4 in. (147.5 x 114.5 x 8.3 cm) - Credit Line
- Bequest of Morton D. May
- Rights
- Public Domain
- Object Number
- 885:1983
NOTES
A male and female nude are intertwined within a form resembling a hollow tree trunk. Smaller tree stumps are spread through a strange, bare landscape. Max Ernst painted this image soon after moving to Paris from his native Germany in the early 1920s. He lived in a ménage à trois relationship with poet Paul Éluard and their partner Gala, who may be the figures depicted in this work. It is unclear whether the couple is passionately embracing or suffocating in claustrophobic proximity.
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