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Two abstract figures stand in the central portion of this image.  The figure on the left is much larger than the figure on the right.  The left figure looks toward the right, raising their arms into the air.  They wear a dress that has patterns of waving forms and squiggled lines.  The other figure bends one arm under their chin and has an outfit depicted with lines that curve to right. The background in mostly blank, except for a strip of patterned grey along the left side of the work. The figures stand on a band of black and grey ground.
Max Ernst (German (culture or style))
Dancers
1950
Museum Purchase made possible by the Friends of the Museum of Art
1987/1.264

Max Ernst (German (culture or style))
Composition with Figures
1891 – 1951
Museum Purchase
1951/2.46
Image of a boot lying on stones and an anatomical drawing superimposed on flowers.
Max Ernst (German (culture or style))
Dechets D'atelier
1968
Bequest of Marion Lawrence
2016/2.239

Max Ernst (German (culture or style))
Four Shoes, from 'La Ballade du Soldat'
1972
Gift of Gilbert M. Frimet
1983/2.240

Max Ernst (German (culture or style))
Three Sharks in Quest of a Victim (Les requins, or Trois requins en quête d'une
1967
Gift of Gilbert Frimet
1986/2.82
Standing bronze figure with recto/verso. The silhouette of the body is rectangular in shape. The heads on both side are simply rendered with rounded eyes and a pursed -lip mouth on one, a button nose on the other; bodies are supported by short legs; sides loosely suggest representations of male and female anatomy with side-by-side scallop shells suggesting a breasted chest on one side, an upward facing frog/toad in the phallus area on the reverse side.
Max Ernst (German (culture or style))
Janus Bird (Oiseau Janus)
1973
Gift of Al and Margaret Coudron
1987/1.160

Max Ernst (German (culture or style))
Hölderlin
1961
Gift of the Estate of Maxine W. Kunstadter in memory of Sigmund Kunstadter, Class of 1922
1983/1.418
Three birds, executed with spare line and simple form, are set within an abstracted landscape of bright yellows and oranges.
Max Ernst (German (culture or style))
At the Crossroads (En Rade)
1955
Gift of the Estate of Maxine W. Kunstadter in memory of Sigmund Kunstadter, Class of 1922
1983/1.414

Max Ernst (German (culture or style))
Light of Impassable Decay (Lumière infranchissable pourriture)
1964
Museum purchase made possible by the Alfred E. Pernt Memorial Fund in honor of Doctor of Technical Sciences Max H. J. Pernt and his wife Anna Pernt (née Mueller)
1986/2.98

Max Ernst (German (culture or style))
Portrait of August Bolte (Portrait Auguste Bolte), from Kurt Schwitters, "Auguste Bolte"
1967
Museum purchase made possible by the Alfred E. Pernt Memorial Fund in honor of Doctor of Technical Sciences Max H. J. Pernt and his wife Anna Pernt (née Mueller)
1986/2.99
At the center of the etching are three or four amorphous figures in white and two shades of black, made in crosshatching. The figures are entwined and have animal and bird-like features. The background is crosshatched to the edges of the page. The print is signed (l.r.) "Max Ernst" and numbered (l.l.) "57/70" in pencil.
Max Ernst (German (culture or style))
Correspondances dangereuses
1947
Museum Purchase
1947/2.10

Max Ernst (German (culture or style))
Les noces interrompues
1971
Gift of Professor Walter M. and Nesta R. Spink
2012/2.188
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