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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1979.420
People
Max Ernst, German (Brühl, Germany 1891 - 1976 Paris, France)
Title
Untitled
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1933-1935
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/222232

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
40.6 x 26 cm (16 x 10 1/4 in.)
framed: 43.4 x 29.3 x 3 cm (17 1/16 x 11 9/16 x 1 3/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: at l.r.: Max Ernst

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Alexander Iolas (? - 1987) bequest; to Sylvia de Cuevas, (c. 1987-1979) gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1979, transfer; to Busch-Reisinger Museum, 1994.

Footnotes: Sylvia de Cuevas is a niece of Alexander Iolas, the artist's dealer.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Sylvia de Cuevas in honor of Melvin R. Seiden
Copyright
© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
Accession Year
1979
Object Number
1979.420
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Caroline A. Jones, Modern Art at Harvard: The Formation of the Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Collections of the Harvard University Art Museums (New York, NY and Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Art Museums and Abbeville Press, 1985). With an essay by John Coolidge and a preface by John M. Rosenfield. To accompany the inaugural exhibition at the Sackler Museum, Oct 21 1985 - Jan 5 1986, p. 91, 96, fig. 85, ill. (color)
  • Peter Nisbet and Joseph Koerner, The Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, ed. Peter Nisbet, Harvard University Art Museums and Scala Publishers Ltd. (Cambridge, MA and London, England, 2007), p. 88

Exhibition History

  • Works from the 20th Century Collection of the Busch-Reisinger, Wildenstein Gallery, New York, New York, 09/23/1980 - 10/24/1980
  • 19th- and 20th-Century Works on Paper from the Permanent Collection, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 02/08/1982
  • German Painting 1760-1960: A New Installation, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 12/20/1983 - 02/19/1984
  • Modern Art at Harvard, Bunkamura Museum of Art, Tokyo, 07/31/1999 - 09/26/1999; Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Kagawa, 10/09/1999 - 11/14/1999; Matsuzakaya Art Museum, Nagoya, 12/02/1999 - 12/27/1999; Oita City Museum, Oita, 01/06/2000 - 02/06/2000; Museum of Modern Art, Ibaraki, Ibaraki, 02/11/2000 - 03/26/2000
  • Re-View: European and American Art Since 1900, Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 05/03/2011 - 06/01/2013
  • 32Q: 1310 Surrealism, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/16/2014 - 04/13/2016
  • 32Q: 3620 University Study Gallery, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/20/2024 - 05/05/2024

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