Titled and signed with pen and India ink over the image on the support sheet: plantation boophile d'outremer hyperboréenne / max ernst. On the cardboard backing labels of the exhibitions New York/Houston/Chicago 1993 and Hanover/Karlsruhe/Salzburg 1994 (see below) as well as of Galerie Brusberg, Berlin
Exposition Dada Max Ernst, La Mise sous Wisky Marin. Paris, Galerie Au Sans Pareil, 1921, cat. no. 13 / Dada. Dokumente einer Bewegung. Düsseldorf, Kunsthalle; Frankfurt a.M., Kunsthalle; Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, 1958/59, cat. no. 305 and 300 / Max Ernst. Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne, 1959, cat. no. 131 / Max Ernst. Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum and Zurich, Kunsthaus, 1962/63, cat. no. 154 / Dada. Ausstellung zum 50jährigen Jubiläum. Zurich, Kunsthaus and Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne, 1966/67, cat. no. 73 / Max Ernst. Dada and the Dawn of Surrealism. New York, Museum of Modern Art; Houston, The Menil Collection; Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, 1993, cat. no. 88, ill. 91 / Die Erfindung der Natur. Hannover, Sprengel Museum; Karlsruhe, Badischer Kunstverein; Salzburg, Rupertinum, 1994, cat. no. 59
Tristan Tzara, Paris / Rudolf Zwirner Collection
Small losses in the left part of the image, support sheet time staining