The Three Inner Preoccupations of Surrealism: Excrement, Blood, Penetration, c.1942
Watercolour. 10 x 7in. (25.7 x 18cm.)
Inscribed on the reverse with the artist’s name, the title of the work, the year and ‘Triads’. With the Paul label
Provenance
National Trust bequest.
The title brings to mind Dali’s comment that the three great simulacra are excrement, blood and putrefaction.