Round 12: Tossup 15

This artist painted a moonlit urban landscape in The Petrified City, made during a trip to Angkor Wat after the end of his ménage à trois with Gala and Paul Éluard. Lewd children’s rhymes inspired the title of a painting by this artist whose main figure (-5[1])is modeled on a Konkomba corn bin. This husband of Dorothea Tanning cut up Victorian pulp fiction for A Week of Kindness and other collage novels. (10[2])An open gate and a knob protrude from a painting (10[1])by this artist (10[1])in which a girl holds a knife up to a bird. This artist, whose alter ego was named Loplop, (-5[1])scratched paint and rubbed pencil onto uneven surfaces in his methods of grattage and frottage. For 10 points, what German-born surrealist painted Ubu Imperator, The Elephant Celebes, and Two Children Are Threatened by a Nightingale? ■END■ (10[2])

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