Max Ernst The Hat Makes the Man (C'est le chapeau qui fait l'homme) 1920
- Medium
- Gouache, pencil, oil, and ink on cut-and-pasted printed paper on board
- Dimensions
- 13 7/8 x 17 3/4" (35.2 x 45.1 cm)
- Credit
- Purchase
- Object number
- 242.1935
- Copyright
- © 2025 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
- Department
- Drawings and Prints
- Max Ernst has 239 works online.
- There are 18,039 drawings online.
Installation views
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Collage
Sep 21–Dec 5, 1948
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Collage and the Photo-Image
Jul 11–Sep 11, 1973
3 other works identified
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Words and Pictures
Aug 20–Oct 6, 1981
1 other work identified
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A Century of Modern Drawing, 1881–1981
Mar 1–16, 1982
1 other work identified
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The Modern Drawing: 100 Works on Paper from The Museum of Modern Art
Oct 26, 1983–Jan 3, 1984
1 other work identified
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Selections from the Permanent Collection: Painting and Sculpture
May 17, 1984–Aug 4, 1992
1 other work identified
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European Drawing Between the Wars
Oct 24, 1987–Mar 1, 1988
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Collage: Selections from the Permanent Collection
Nov 3, 1988–Feb 28, 1989
2 other works identified
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Drawing in Europe, 1881–1938
Jul 19–Sep 21, 1990
1 other work identified
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High and Low: Modern Art and Popular Culture
Oct 7, 1990–Jan 15, 1991
1 other work identified
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Collecting in Depth: Drawings by Grosz, Schwitters, Ernst, and Klee
May 13–Jul 20, 1999
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Drawing from the Modern, 1880 - 1945
Nov 20, 2004–Mar 7, 2005
8 other works identified
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Drawing from the Modern, 1880 - 1945
Nov 20, 2004–Mar 7, 2005
3 other works identified
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Dada
Jun 18–Sep 11, 2006
3 other works identified
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Dada
Jun 18–Sep 11, 2006
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Dada
Jun 18–Sep 11, 2006
2 other works identified
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Max Ernst: Beyond Painting
Sep 23, 2017–Jan 1, 2018
15 other works identified
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Max Ernst: Beyond Painting
Sep 23, 2017–Jan 1, 2018
6 other works identified
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508: According to the Laws of Chance
Nov 14, 2020–Jan 7, 2024
6 other works identified
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508: According to the Laws of Chance
Nov 14, 2020–Jan 7, 2024
6 other works identified
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Paul Eluard, Paris. Acquired from the artist
The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Purchased from Paul Eluard, 1935
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