La femme étant à l’homme ce que le lit est aux nuages, 1942

  • André Breton, French, 1896 - 1966

Assemblage in box including wood, paint, paper, self-adhesive letters, rock, ferrous metal, lead, string, board, lace, chalk, and glass

  • Overall: 16 × 18 × 4 inches (40.6 × 45.7 × 10.2 cm)

Bequest of Margaret Herz Demant

2018.141

March 1942, probably given by the artist to Suzy Hare [Susanna Winslow Perkins Wilson] (New York, New York, USA). 1968, Edwin and Lindy (Betty) Bergman, (Chicago, Illinois, USA). by November 6, 1979, William N. Copley (New York, New York, USA)

November 6, 1979, sold at his sale, (Sotheby Parke-Bernet, New York, New York, USA), lot 290. after November 6, 1979, Donald Karshan (New York, New York and Port Orange, Florida, USA). by October 1989, (Donald Morris Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan, USA)

October 1989, sold to Margaret H. Demant [1926–2018] (Huntington Woods, Michigan, USA)

2018-present, bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

The William N. Copley Collection. Sales cat., Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, November 5-6, 1979, no. 290 (ill.). Breton, André. Je vois, j'imagine: poèmes-objets. Paris, 1991, pp. 182-183 (ill.), no. 142.

André Breton, La femme étant à l’homme ce que le lit est aux nuages, 1942, assemblage in box including wood, paint, paper, self-adhesive letters, rock, ferrous metal, lead, string, board, lace, chalk, and glass. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of Margaret Herz Demant, 2018.141.