Nu, Cadavre Exquis is a Surrealist drawing dated 1926-1927. The piece is the result of the close collaboration between four artists: Yves Tanguy, Joan Miró, Max Morise and Man Ray. In this collaboration (which is a Surrealist experiment) each artist drew a portion of the figure starting from the top without having knowledge of what their previous colleague
had done. The work depicts the figure of a nude woman standing in an almost isolated backround except for a few sparse stones and shading near the legs, which suggests the presence of the ground. The heavy stock paper on which the figure is drawn has been creased horizontally into four equal parts, thus forming four compartments of equal dimensions and dividing the figure as well into four parts. Each of these compartments was drawn by a different artist, thus giving the figure a disjointed aspect. The first compartment was done by Tanguy, the second by Miró, the third by Morise and the last by Man Ray. The......
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