Etoile de mer (Starfish)

Max Ernst, German, 1891 - 1976

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1950

Color lithograph on Arches paper

Edition 20/60

Sight: 17 in. (43.2 cm)

Sight: 10 1/2 in. (26.7 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Julia L. Whittier Fund

PR.956.15.3

Printer

Desjobert, Paris

Publisher

La Guilde Internationale de la Gravure, Genève, Paris and New York

Geography

Place Made: Germany, Europe

Period

20th century

Object Name

Print

Research Area

Print

Not on view

Inscriptions

Signed, in graphite, lower left: max ernst; inscribed, in graphite, lower right: XX/LX; embossed, lower right: GUILDE DE LA GRAVURE

Exhibition History

Cubist-Surrealist Works, Colby-Sawyer College, New London, New Hampshire, March 5-14, 1979.

Reality and its Alternatives, Art History 2, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, December 4-March 13, 2005.

Provenance

Esther Gentle, New York, New York; sold to present collection, 1956.

Catalogue Raisonne

H. Leppien, Max Ernst Das Graphische Werk, 1975, no. 47.

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