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Max Ernst. Je ne mange pas de ce pain-là (I’d Rather Starve)

Max Ernst

Je ne mange pas de ce pain-là (I’d Rather Starve)

Published 1936 (text 1926–34)

MoMA, Floor 3, 3 South The Edward Steichen Galleries
Author Benjamin Péret
Publisher Éditions Surréalistes, Paris
Medium Book with one etching by Ernst (frontispiece); letterpress text on red paper; publisher’s original red paper cover
Dimensions pages (dimensions vary): from 5 7/16 × 3 5/8 in. (13.8 × 9.2 cm) to 8 1/16 × 6 1/8 in. (20.5 × 15.5 cm); book (closed): 8 1/16 × 6 1/8 × 9/16 in. (20.5 × 15.5 × 1.4 cm)
Printer of text Impressions Diverses, Paris
Edition 250. One numbered 1 on Japon nacré paper, with manuscript by Péret and suite of five color variants of Ernst’s frontispiece; fifteen numbered 2–16 on Japon impérial paper; twenty-five author’s copies numbered 17–41 on Le Roy Louis red paper; eight on Canson gray paper, unnumbered, printed with the recipients’ names; all with Ernst’s frontispiece. 200 numbered 42–242 on Chesterfield laid paper, without the frontispiece. This copy no. 26
Credit Gift of Helen and Sam Zell
Object number 474.2022
Department Drawings and Prints

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Max Ernst

Max Ernst

French and American, born Germany. 1891–1976 243 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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