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Identification and Creation

Object Number
P1997.4.19
People
Max Ernst, German (Brühl, Germany 1891 - 1976 Paris, France)
Published by Black Sun Press, French (1927 - c. 1955)
Title
. . . Cynthia, her pearls, her feathers, her miracles . . .
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: Mr. Knife, Miss Fork
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
book page, photograph
Date
1931
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Germany
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/281597

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Cliché-verre
Dimensions
17.8 x 11.2 cm (7 x 4 7/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Kam Art & Book Co., Inc., Philadelphia, PA, Gotham Book Mart?, sold to the Harvard University Art Museums, 1997. [A stamp affixed to the inside back cover reads: GOTHAM BOOK MARK . . . N.Y.]

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, The Gabriella De Ferrari Fund for the Acquisition of Contemporary Art, and the Richard and Ronay Menschel Fund for the Acquisition of Photographs
Copyright
© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
Accession Year
1997
Object Number
P1997.4.19
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Elizabeth Glassman and Marilyn F. Symmes, Cliché-verre, Hand-Drawn, Light-Printed, exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, MI, 1980), 112-113, 135-136
  • Werner Spies, Max Ernst Frottages, Thames & Hudson (London, England, 1986), 70-99
  • Robert Rainwater, ed., Max Ernst: Beyond Surrealism, New York Public Library (New York, NY, 1986), 166-167 for a list of illustrations
  • Katarina Schmidt et al., ed., Max Ernst: Illustrierte Bücher un Druckgraphische Werke, exh. cat., Wienand Verlag (Cologne, Germany, 1989), 117-119

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