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Max Ernst. The Gramineous Bicycle Garnished with Bells the Dappled Fire Damps and the Echinoderms Bending the Spine to Look for Caresses. c. 1921

(French, born Germany, 1891-1976)

The Gramineous Bicycle Garnished with Bells the Dappled Fire Damps and the Echinoderms Bending the Spine to Look for Caresses (la biciclette graminée garnie de grelots les grisous grivelés et les échinodermes courbants l'échine pour quêter des caresses). c. 1921

Gouache and ink on chromolithographic chart, 29 1/4 x 39 1/4" (74.3 x 99.7 cm)
The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Purchase, 1937
© 2006 Max Ernst / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

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