A black and white photograph used as a book illustration.
Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College
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Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College

The black and white photograph show a dark, grainy image of a well-muscled torso. In the place of a head an open-beaked creature rises from the left shoulder on a long thin neck across to the right shoulder. A bird perches on the left shoulder, its head pointing down. Above the figure a crown with six sharp points is placed on the diagonal. On the right side a climbing leave pattern reaches from the top almost to the bottom of the image. Flame like tongues flare back from the figure to the upper left side of the picture.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
P1997.4
People
Max Ernst, German (Brühl, Germany 1891 - 1976 Paris, France)
Author: René Crevel (Paris, France 1900 - 1935 Paris, France)
Title
Mr. Knife, Miss Fork
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: René Crevel's Mr. Knife, Miss Fork, 1931
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
book
Date
1931
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Germany
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/54978

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Cliché-verre
Dimensions
18.3 x 12 x 1.6 cm (7 3/16 x 4 3/4 x 5/8 in.)

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
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
Permissions

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Descriptions

Description
A translation of a fragment of René Crevel's "Babylone" by Kay Boyle. Published by the Black Sun Press, Paris, September 1931.

Exhibition History

  • A Decade of Collecting: Recent Acquisitions of Photographs, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/29/2000 - 07/23/2000
  • 32Q: 1310 Surrealism, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/14/2016 - 03/30/2017

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