Invisible Piano Jelly Mould

Flicking through this in the charity shop, I thought: "This really reminds me of something... ...but what?"

Aha!

Max Ernst: St Cecelia (The Invisible Piano); Long Live Love; Ubu Imperator [all 1923]

Max Ernst: Niceland (Pays sage) [1923]

See also the outcasts in Barbarella:

The Practical Infant Teacher, Supplementary Volume

1938-ish.  This lot from the section on ART.  The text is worth reading - check the modern ideas about teaching, self-expression, what art is for etc.  I wonder what Michael Rosen would make of it?

Marion Richardson is acknowledged as a major influence: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marion_Richardson

 

This could be Carel Weight!