Max Ernst, French, Born Germany, 1891- 1976.
Spanish Physician, 1940, Oil on Canvas.
Photographed by Judith Huang at the Art Institute of Chicago, IL.
My interpretation:
The Horse of War, a sheet masking his true nature, looks curiously –
A woman, her face stricken with fear, her clothes half torn with starvation, runs off the frame, desperately tossing a token of peace – a blind bird –
The squat man stands, oblivious, on the left. On the hip of his horse is the face of death – the face of war and death.