
Art Institute of Chicago
Dada Gauguin
Max Ernst · 1920
Provenance
Ownership history
- Paul Eluard, Paris. Edouard Loeb, Paris. Barry Miller, London [email from Maurice Fulton, May 11, 2000 in curatorial file]; Sold to B.C. Holland Gallery, Chicago [email mentioned above]; Sold to Maurice Fulton, Glencoe, Illinois [email mentioned above]; gift to Art Institute, 1994.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Paris, Au Sans Pareil, Exposition Dada Max Ernst, May 3-June 3, 1921, no. 42.
- Besançon, Palais Granvelle, Surréalism et Précurseurs, 1961, no.83.
- Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, December 28, 1962-March 3, 1963, no. 128 (illus. no. 7); traveled to Zurich, Kunsthaus, March 23-April 28, 1963.
- Paris, Galerie Charpentier, Le Surréalism, Sources, Histoires, Affinités, July-August 1964, no. 118.
- Paris, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Dada, Exposition Commémorative du Cinquantenaire, November 30, 1966-January 30, 1967, no. 468.New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Max Ernst: A Retrospective, 1975, no. 38.
- Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Dada and Surrealism in Chicago Collections, December 1, 1984–January 27, 1985.
- Dusseldorf, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, February 19–April 23, 1989, no. 41.
- London, The Tate Gallery, Max Ernst: A Retrospective, February 13-April 21, 1991, no. 30; traveled to Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie, May 18-August 4, 1991.
- New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Max Ernst, March 14-May 2, 1993, no. 59 (illus. no. 61); traveled to Houston, The Menil Collection, May 28-August 29, 1993, and Chicago, The Art Institute, September 15-November 30, 1993.
- Chicago, The Museum of Contemporary Art, In the Mind’s Eye. Dada and Surrealism, December 1, 1984-January 27,1985, pl. 16.
Literature
Published references
- “Au-dela de la peinture,” Cahiers d’Art 11 (1936), pp. 8-10, 267-272 (ill.).
- Gualtieri San Lazzaro, ed., Homage to Max Ernst, special issue of the XX Siecle Review (Milan, 1971).
- Werner Spies, Max Ernst. Collages (New York, 1988), no. 19.
- Ludger Derenthal and Jürgen Pech, Max Ernst (Paris, 1992), p. 44 (ill.).
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