Surrealist Figure, illustration for Lewis Carroll's La Chasse au Snark (The Hunting of the Snark)
Max Ernst, German, 1891 - 1976
1950
Soap ground aquatint on Rives wove paper
26/30
Plate: 9 1/4 × 7 in. (23.5 × 17.8 cm)
Sheet: 12 7/8 × 9 15/16 in. (32.7 × 25.2 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Elizabeth and Michael Mayor
2014.94.4
Geography
Place Made: Germany, Europe
Period
20th century
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Numbered, in graphite, lower left margin: 26/30; signed, in graphite, lower right: max ernst; Watermark, lower left: RIVES
Provenance
Elizabeth and Michael Mayor, Hanover, New Hampshire; given to present collection, 2014.
Catalogue Raisonne
Leppien (1975): 37
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