In the ancient Greek myth, Jupiter, in the shape of a swan, seduces Leda, wife of Tynclareus, King of Sparta. One or, in some versions, two eggs issue forth from this union, from which sprang the heavenly twins Castor and Pollux (the Gemini) and the sisters Helen of Troy and Clytempestra. The elongated form ending in a beak, which is also present in Ne vous en déplaise 1929 (lot 253), is the swan; Leda is depicted as the pawn-like shape at right. The combination of spiral and tooth-like forms appear to connect the forms in the act of love. In this painting Seligmann charges his biomorphic forms with sexuality and a mythic dimension which was largely alien to the formalistic pursuits of the Abstract-Création artists, and he displays a growing affinity with Surrealist concerns.