Max Ernst - Portrait de Gala 1926
Portrait de Gala 1926
92x65cm oil/canvas
Sold for: USD 1.11 million
Auction house: Sotheby’s, London
Sale date: 28 February 2018
Seller: Private Collection
Buyer: Anonymous buyer
The central importance of women to the ideology and imagery of the Surrealist movement is embodied in the figure of Gala; wife of both Paul Eluard and later Salvador Dalí, and lover of Max Ernst, she was the ultimate Surrealist muse.