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Max Ernst and Dorothea Tanning with the Capricorne sculpture, Sedona, Arizona, 1948. Photograph by John Kasnetzis.

“In the summer of 1947, Max Ernst, exuberant and inspired by the arrival of water piped to our house (up to then we had hauled it from a well five miles away), began playing with cement and scarp iron with assists from box tops, eggshells, car springs, milk cartons and other detritus. The result: Capricorn, a monumental sculpture of regal but benign deities that consecrated our ‘garden’ and watched over its inhabitants.” –Dorothea Tanning