Halleluiah by Max Ernst
Art Institute of Chicago

Halleluiah

Max Ernst · 1948

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. The artist, Sedona, AZ; sold jointly to M. Knoedler & Co., New York, and Julien Levy Gallery, New York, 1948 [Knoedler Stock Book 9, Page 181, Getty Provenance Index, copy in curatorial object file]; sold to J. Marechal Brown III, Villanova, PA, Aug. 15, 1954 [Knoedler Stock Book 10, Page 43, Getty Provenance Index, copy in curatorial object file]. Sold through William S. Rubin, New York [this and the following according to Bill of Sale, copy in curatorial object file] to Richard S. Zeisler (1917-2007), New York, by Dec. 20, 1961 [loan agreement with the Museum of Modern Art, copy in curatorial object file]; bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago, June 25, 2007.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • New York, M. Knoedler & Co., Max Ernst, Nov. 23–Dec. 11, 1948, cat. 1.
  • Beverly Hills, CA, The Copley Galleries, Max Ernst: 30 Years of His Work, A Survey, Jan. 10–Feb. 20, 1949, cat. 66.
  • Paris, Galerie René Drouin, À la hauteur des yeux, Apr. 1950, cat 39.
  • New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Max Ernst; Louisville, Kentucky, J. B. Speed Art Museum, Jan. 4–Feb. 1, 1962; Grinnell College, Iowa, Feb. 18–Mar. 21, 1962; St. Louis, Washington University, Apr. 2–29, 1962; Denver, Denver Art Museum, May 13–June 13, 1962; New Orleans, Isaac Delgado Museum of Art, Sept. 9–14, 1962; Tucson, Tucson Fine Arts Association, The Art Center, November 1-22, 1962; Phoenix, Phoenix Art Museum, Dec. 1–29, 1962; Salt Lake City, Utah, University of Utah, Jan. 14–Feb. 11, 1963; Winnipeg, Canada, Art Gallery Association, Feb. 26–Mar. 26, 1963; Columbus, Ohio State University, Apr. 10–May 1, 1963.
  • Berkeley, CA, University of California, Berkeley Art Museum, Excellence: Art from the University Community, Nov. 6, 1970–Jan. 9, 1971, cat. 365.
  • New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Max Ernst Retrospective, Feb. 14–Apr. 20, 1975, cat. 233; Paris, Les galeries nationales du Grand-Palais, May 15–Aug. 18, 1975.
  • Roslyn, NY, Nassau County Museum of Art, Surrealism: Mirror of Anxiety, Jan. 15–Apr. 16, 1995, no cat.

Literature

Published references

  • M. Knoedler & Co., Paintings by Max Ernst, exh. cat. (New York: M. Knoedler & Co., 1948), cat. 1.
  • Max Ernst, ed., with André Breton et al., Max Ernst at Eye Level: Poems and Comments, Paramyths: New Poems and Collages (Beverly Hills, CA: The Copley Galleries, 1949), n.p., cat. 66 (not ill.).
  • Joë Bousquet and Michel Tapié, Max Ernst: À la hauteur des yeux (Paris: René Drouin, 1950), 62, cat. 39 (not ill.).
  • University of California, Berkeley Art Museum, Excellence: Art from the University Community, exh. cat. (Berkeley, CA: University Art Museum, 1970), n.p., cat. 365 (not ill.).
  • The Museum of Modern Art, Max Ernst, exh. cat. (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1962).
  • Diane Waldman, ed., Max Ernst: Retrospective, exh. cat. (New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, 1975), 214, cat. 233 (not ill.), as Hallelujah, 1948.
  • Werner Spies, Sigrid Metken, and Günter Metken, eds., Max Ernst, Œuvre-Katalog, vol. 5, Werke 1939–1953 (Houston, TX: Menil Foundation and Cologne: DuMont Buchverlag, 1987), 145, cat. 2576 (ill.).
  • Beth Gates Warren and Marie Difilippantonio, eds., Julien Levy: The Man, His Gallery, His Legacy, vol. 2 (Newtown, CT: Jean and Julien Levy Foundation for the Arts, 2023), 599 (not ill.).

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