Objet-peinture (Painting Object)

Objet-peinture (Painting Object) sits between his constructions at the end of the 1920s and the bronze pieces he made from found objects in the 1960s. The work comprises a painting on board from 1936, later painted on the back, and a series of objects; it represents, in a dissociated way, the figure of a dancer, in which the clothes peg works as the legs and the squashed party horn adorned with scenes from a variety show representing her moving body. The 1936 painting, upon which a whistle and toothbrush are hung, represents a dark world of fantastical and ominous beings, in contrast to the bright scene on the back bearing the sun and the stars. The work brings to mind the descriptions his friend Georges Hugnet made of the objects in 1931, stating: “The landscape resembles a woman, a pipe, a trumpet, a popular melody”.

Carmen Fernández Aparicio