Exchange: Post-WWII German Surrealism

Post-WWII German Surrealism

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
Correspondances dangereuses
etching on Vélin Arches paper
11 3/4 in x 18 7/8 in (29.85 cm x 47.94 cm);11 3/4 in x 18 7/8 in (29.85 cm x 47.94 cm);22 1/8 in x 18 1/16 in (56.2 cm x 45.88 cm)
Museum Purchase

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Max Ernst
Portrait of August Bolte (Portrait Auguste Bolte), from Kurt Schwitters, "Auguste Bolte"
lithograph on chine collé
12 9/16 in x 9 ⅛ in (31.91 cm x 23.18 cm);7 3/10 in x 3 ⅛ in (18.57 cm x 7.94 cm);14 3/10 in x 19 3/10 in (36.35 cm x 49.05 cm)
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)

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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
Janus Bird (Oiseau Janus)
bronze
16 15/16 in x 8 ⅞ in x 8 ⅜ in (43.02 cm x 22.54 cm x 21.27 cm);16 15/16 in x 8 ⅞ in x 8 ⅜ in (43.02 cm x 22.54 cm x 21.27 cm)
Gift of Al and Margaret Coudron

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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
Dancers
lithograph on Arches paper
22 3/16 in x 14 15/16 in (56.36 cm x 37.94 cm);32 1/16 in x 26 1/16 in (81.44 cm x 66.2 cm);22 3/16 in x 14 15/16 in (56.36 cm x 37.94 cm);19 3/8 in x 12 13/16 in (49.21 cm x 32.54 cm)
Museum Purchase made possible by the Friends of the Museum of Art

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Max Ernst
Composition with Figures
lithograph on paper
19 5/8 in. x 12 7/8 in. ( 49.8 cm x 32.7 cm )
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Three birds, executed with spare line and simple form, are set within an abstracted landscape of bright yellows and oranges.

Max Ernst
At the Crossroads (En Rade)
oil on canvas
19 1/2 x 22 15/16 x 1 in. (49.53 x 58.26 x 2.54 cm);19 1/2 x 22 15/16 x 1 in. (49.53 x 58.26 x 2.54 cm);14 7/8 x 18 1/4 in. (37.7 x 46.2 cm)
Gift of the Estate of Maxine W. Kunstadter in memory of Sigmund Kunstadter, Class of 1922

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Max Ernst
Three Sharks in Quest of a Victim (Les requins, or Trois requins en quête d'une
hand-colored etching on Arches paper
26 x 19 3/4 in. (66 x 50.1 cm);27 3/8 x 20 3/4 in. (69.5 x 52.7 cm);13 7/16 x 17 3/8 in. (34 x 44 cm)
Gift of Gilbert Frimet

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Max Ernst
Les noces interrompues
etching and aquatint with embossing, and hand-coloring on wove paper
13 7/8 in x 9 3/8 in (35.24 cm x 23.81 cm)
Gift of Professor Walter M. and Nesta R. Spink

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Max Ernst
Four Shoes, from 'La Ballade du Soldat'
etching, printed in red ink on paper
15 x 11 1/8 in. (38 x 28.1 cm);22 3/16 x 28 3/16 in. (56.2 x 71.44 cm);6 1/2 x 7 7/8 in. (16.5 x 20 cm)
Gift of Gilbert M. Frimet

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Paul Wunderlich
Jutta sur Canapé
etching on brown paper
26 1/2 in. x 19 1/4 in. ( 67.3 cm x 48.9 cm )
Museum Purchase

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Paul Wunderlich
What a Position
lithograph on paper
19 ¾ in x 25 ½ in (50.17 cm x 64.77 cm);16 ⅝ in x 21 ⅜ in (42.23 cm x 54.29 cm);24 in x 35 ⅞ in (60.96 cm x 91.12 cm)
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles D. Clark

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