Etoile de mer (Starfish)
Max Ernst, German, 1891 - 1976
1950
Color lithograph on Arches paper
Edition 20/60
Sight: 17 in. (43.2 cm)
Sight: 10 1/2 in. (26.7 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Julia L. Whittier Fund
PR.956.15.3
Printer
Desjobert, Paris
Publisher
La Guilde Internationale de la Gravure, Genève, Paris and New York
Geography
Place Made: Germany, Europe
Period
20th century
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed, in graphite, lower left: max ernst; inscribed, in graphite, lower right: XX/LX; embossed, lower right: GUILDE DE LA GRAVURE
Exhibition History
Cubist-Surrealist Works, Colby-Sawyer College, New London, New Hampshire, March 5-14, 1979.
Reality and its Alternatives, Art History 2, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, December 4-March 13, 2005.
Provenance
Esther Gentle, New York, New York; sold to present collection, 1956.
Catalogue Raisonne
H. Leppien, Max Ernst Das Graphische Werk, 1975, no. 47.
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