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Europe After the Rain I (L'Europe après la pluie I), 1933; Cat 184, p. 213; Oil and plaster on plywood, 101 x 149 cm; Spies/Metken 1881, Private Collection Europe After the Rain (Europa nach dem Regen), 1940–42; Cat 216, p. 245; Oil on canvas, 54.8 x 147.8 cm; Spies/Metken 2395; Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut. Ella Gallup Sumner and Mary Catlin Sumner Collection

ISBN 3-7913-1140-9 p. 47; Rain I "introduced technical means which the painters of the Ecole de Paris were to" use p. 210 (text by Werner Spies); Rain I "a key work which demonstrably influenced the development of post-war Abstract Expressionism as represented by the texture-oriented paintings of Jean Dubuffet and Jean Fautrier

began to experiment with decalomania in the late 30s; would place paper/glass sheet atop painted surface and pull away; in second Rain painting and others such as The Eye of Silence, p. 230

"his masterpiece in the decalomania mode of Saint-Martin-d'Ardèche [where he lived with Carrington prior to his internment as en enemy alien p. 368]; panoramic [second Rain]; not shown in NY; depicts likely Leonora Carrington, in robe and hat, "finally turning away into the past" "The Loplop bird starts to turn his head, but freezes: he will not risk the fate of Orpheus, and lives already in an underworld." p. 369 (Sarah Wilson: Max Ernst and England, pp. 363–372)

p. 368; Ernst began to use decalomania during internment in Camp des Milles; 'an elaboration of the parlor game "Ghosts"' ("Rorschach-like"); "no doubt that time and again Ernst was painting his lost beloved" during this time; Carrington sold the house/belongings in May 1940 during his second internment (St. Nicolas camp), so Ernst returned to no home and she was gone/abandoned

ISBN 0-292-79135-6 p. 167 p. 201

ISBN 0-8478-0523-9 Gimferrer 11, 12, 18

ISBN 0-8109-3271-7 p. 157–


 * https://books.google.com/books?id=g645i-qeTuoC&pg=PA69
 * https://books.google.com/books?id=DTk_DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA15
 * https://books.google.com/books?id=31TRCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA161
 * http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/3438132 req 32-33, 90, 96, 97, 243, toc, copyright page, bibliography
 * Gimferrer's Max Ernst (library)
 * Max Ernst: a retrospective, Prestel, 1991, ch. VIII + index
 * Exiles+emigrés: the flight of European artists from Hitler
 * V for Vendetta
 * Nothing in Commons
 * Nothing in Commons


 * https://www.artsy.net/artwork/max-ernst-europe-after-the-rain