Robert Desnos (Paris, 1900 - Theresienstadt camp, 1945) The Mermaid's Castle, circa 1931 Oil on canvas Signed lower left 55 x 46 cm Provenance : - Youki Desnos, Paris - Sale Paris, Hôtel Drouot, Étude Binoche, Renaud, Giquello, 19 May 2008, lot 194 - Geneviève and Jean-Paul Kahn Collection, Paris Exhibition: - Paris, Bibliothèque historique de la Ville de Paris, "Robert Desnos, des images et des mots", 15 October - 8 December 1999, reproduced in the catalogue p. 151.