Surrealist Figure, illustration for Lewis Carroll's La Chasse au Snark (The Hunting of the Snark)

Max Ernst, German, 1891 - 1976

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1950

Soap ground aquatint on Rives wove paper

26/30

Plate: 9 1/4 × 7 in. (23.5 × 17.8 cm)

Sheet: 12 7/8 × 9 15/16 in. (32.7 × 25.2 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Elizabeth and Michael Mayor

2014.94.4

Geography

Place Made: Germany, Europe

Period

20th century

Object Name

Print

Research Area

Print

Not on view

Inscriptions

Numbered, in graphite, lower left margin: 26/30; signed, in graphite, lower right: max ernst; Watermark, lower left: RIVES

Provenance

Elizabeth and Michael Mayor, Hanover, New Hampshire; given to present collection, 2014.

Catalogue Raisonne

Leppien (1975): 37

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