Forest and Sun by Max Ernst
Art Institute of Chicago

Forest and Sun

Max Ernst · 1927

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Baron Elie de Rothschild [Feigen receipt in curatorial file]. Richard L. Feigen, New York, by February 7, 1959; sold to Richard Zeisler, New York, February 7, 1959 [receipt in curatorial file].

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Max Ernst, February 27-May 7, 1961; traveled to Chicago, Art Institute, June 14-July 23, 1961.
  • London, Tate Gallery, Max Ernst Exhibition, September 5-October 15, 1961.
  • New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Rousseau, Redon and Fantasy, May 31-September 8, 1968.
  • Houston, Institute for the Arts, Rice University, January 1972.
  • New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Four Modern Masters: de Chirico, Ernst, Magritte and Miro, May-October 1981; toured: São Paulo, Brazil; Buenos Aires, Argentina; and Caracas, Venezuela.
  • Chicago, Art Institute, Max Ernst and the Dawn of Surrealism, September 18-November 30, 1993.
  • Key West, Fla., Guild Hall Galleries, The Surrealists and Their Friends on Eastern Long Island at Mid-Century, August 10-October 13, 1996.

Literature

Published references

  • Max Ernst, Beyond Painting: And Other Writings by the Artist and his Friends (New York: Wittenborn, Schultz, 1948).
  • Thomas Hess, Abstract Painting: Background and American Phase (New York: Viking Press, 1951).
  • Patrick Waldberg, Max Ernst (Paris: J. J. Pauvert, 1958).
  • The Museum of Modern Art, Max Ernst, exh. cat. (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1961).
  • Tate Gallery, Max Ernst Exhibition, exh. cat. (London: Tate Gallery, 1961).
  • The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Rousseau, Redon and Fantasy, exh. cat. (New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1968).
  • Werner Spies, Max Ernst Oeuvre-Katalog, Vol. 3, (Houston: Menil Foundation, 1976), no. 1172.
  • The Museum of Modern Art, Four Modern Masters: de Chirico, Ernst, Magritte and Miro, exh. cat. (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1981).
  • William A. Camfield, Max Ernst and the Dawn of Surrealism, exh. cat. (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1993).
  • Guild Hall Galleries, The Surrealists and Their Friends on Eastern Long Island at Mid-Century, exh. cat. (Key West, Fla.: Guild Hall Galleries, 1996).

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