Max Ernst

Plate (page 33) from La Brebis galante

1949

Line block and pochoir from an illustrated book with 18 line blocks with pochoir, three etchings (one with aquatint), and one lithograph (including cover)

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Author Benjamin Péret
Medium Line block and pochoir from an illustrated book with 18 line blocks with pochoir, three etchings (one with aquatint), and one lithograph (including cover)
Dimensions composition (irreg.): 7 9/16 × 6 1/8" (19.2 × 15.5 cm); page: 9 5/16 × 7 5/16" (23.7 × 18.5 cm)
Publisher Éditions Premières, Paris
Printer Éditions Georges Visat & Cie., Paris
Edition 300
Credit The Louis E. Stern Collection
Object number 829.1964.8
Illustrated book La Brebis galante
Department Drawings and Prints

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Max Ernst

Max Ernst

French and American, born Germany. 1891–1976 234 works online

A key member of first Dada and then Surrealism in Europe in the 1910s and 1920s, Max Ernst used a variety of mediums—painting, collage, printmaking, sculpture, and various unconventional drawing methods—to give visual form to both personal memory and collective myth.

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