André Breton (1896-1966); René Huyghe (1906-1997); Nusch Eluard (1906-1946)

The present work comes from a series of surrealist drawings titled Cadavre exquis. These drawings emerged from a game that the artists would play in which they would take turns working on an image as described in the 1938 Dictionnaire Abrégé du Surréalisme: "Game of folded paper that consists in having a sentence or a drawing composed by several persons, each ignorant of the preceding collaboration" (quoted in Dalí, exh. cat., Palazzo Grassi, Venice and The Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2004-2005, p. 184).