Spanish Physician

1. The artist, Saint Martin d’Ardèche, France, 1940 [London 1961] and later New York [New York 1942]; sold through Peggy Guggenheim and Howard Putzel, New York, between 1942 and 1946 [Guggenheim 1946]. With Julien Levy Gallery, New York, by 1946 [handwritten checklist for Washington, D.C. 1946, no. 7, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Library and Archives, Julien Levy Gallery Records; copy in curatorial object file ]. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Randall Shapiro, Oak Park, IL, by 1958 [lender information sheet, Newberry Library, Arts Club Papers, Series I: Exhibitions, Box 55, Folder 716; copy in curatorial object file]; bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1996.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• New York, Valentine Gallery, Exhibition Max Ernst, Mar. 23-Apr. 11, 1942, cat. 6; Chicago, The Arts Club of Chicago, as Drawings and Paintings by Max Ernst, May 22–June 13, 1942, cat. 3.
• Washington, D.C., Caresse Crosby Gallery, Max Ernst/Dorothea Tanning, Mar. 15–Apr. 10, 1946, cat. 7.
• Chicago, The Arts Club of Chicago, Surrealism Then and Now, Oct. 1–30, 1958, cat. 20.
• New York, Museum of Modern Art, Max Ernst, Mar. 1–May 7, 1961, cat. 88; Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, June 16–July 23, 1961.
• London, Tate Gallery, Max Ernst, Sept. 7–Oct. 15, 1961, cat. 137.
• Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Selections from the Joseph Randall Shapiro Collection, Dec. 20, 1969–Feb. 1, 1970, cat. 25.
• Chicago, The Arts Club of Chicago, The Horse as Motif, 1200 B.C.-1966 A.D., Jan. 15–Feb. 22, 1975, cat. 71.
• Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Dada and Surrealism in Chicago Collections, Dec. 1, 1984–Jan. 27, 1985, no cat. no.
• Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, The Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Randall Shapiro Collection, Feb. 23–Apr. 14, 1985, cat. 55.
• Ishøj, Denmark, Arken Museum of Modern Art, Lenora Carrington: Revelation, Sept. 17,2022–Jan. 15, 2023; Madrid, Fundación MAPFRE, Feb. 11–May 7, 2023, cat. 48.
• Milan, Palazzo Reale, Leonora Carrington, Sept. 20, 2025-Jan. 11, 2026, no cat. no.; Paris,
• Musée du Luxembourg, Feb. 18-July 19, 2026, cat. 28.

• Valentine Gallery, Exhibition Max Ernst, exh. brochure (New York: Valentine Gallery, 1942), n.p., cat. 6 (not ill.), as Spanish doctor, fat horse, and young girl.
• Charles Henri Ford, ed., “Drawings and Paintings by Max Ernst,” exh. brochure in View, 2, no. 1 (April 1942), 18, cat. 3 (not ill.), as Spanish doctor, fat horse, and young girl.
• Caresse Crosby Gallery, Max Ernst/Dorothea Tanning, exh. mailer (Washington D.C.: Caresse Crosby Gallery, 1946), n.p., cat. 7 (not ill.), as Spanish Doctor, Fat Horse, and Young Girl.
• Martica Sawin, “The Max Ernst Exhibition,” Arts 35, no. 7 (April 1961): 44 (ill.), as The Spanish Physician.
• William S. Lieberman, ed., Max Ernst, exh. cat. (New York: Museum of Modern Art and Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1961), 42 (ill.), 54, cat. 88, as The Spanish Physician.
• The Arts Council of Great Britain, Max Ernst, exh. cat. (London: Arts Council, 1961), 55, cat. 137 (ill.), as The Spanish Physician.
• Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Selections from the Joseph Randall Shapiro Collection, exh. cat. (Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Art, 1969), n.p., cat. 25 (ill.).
• The Arts Club of Chicago, The Horse as Motif, 1200 B.C.-1966 A.D., exh. cat. (Chicago: The Arts Club of Chicago, 1975), 44–45, cat. 71 (ill.), as A Spanish Physician.
• Dawn Ades amd Terry Ann R. Neff, eds., In the Mind’s Eye: Dada and Surrealism, exh. cat. (Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Art, 1985), 11, pl. 3 (color ill.), 147.
• Katherine Kuh and Dennis Adrian, eds., The Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Randall Shapiro Collection, exh. cat. (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1985), 56, fig. 44, cat. 55 (color ill.). 110, cat. 55.
• Werner Spies, Sigrid Metken, and Günter Metken, Max Ernst: Oeuvre-Katalog, vol. 5: Werke 1939–1953 (Houston, TX: The Menil Foundation and Cologne: DuMont Buchverlag, 1987), 28, cat. 2357 (ill).
• Doris Wintgens, Peggy, Nelly: Peggy Guggenheim and Nelly van Doesburg, Advocates of De Stijl (Rotterdam: Nai010 Publishers, 2017), 102, fig. 56 (ill.), 107 (ill., detail).

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