Max Ernst
Chimeras in the Mountains
1939
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Max Ernst
Chimeras in the Mountains
1939
Physical Qualities
Oil on canvas, Unframed: 9 1/2 × 7 1/2 in. (24.1 × 19.1 cm.)
Framed: 21 1/4 × 18 1/2 × 2 in. (54 × 47 × 5.1 cm.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Saidie A. May
Object Number
1951.296
The Baltimore Museum of Art by bequest, 1951; The Baltimore Museum of Art on loan, 1942-1951; Saidie A. May, by purchase, 1942; from Art of This Century, New York
The Baltimore Museum of Art, "The Saidie A. May Collection of Modern paintings and Sculpture", March 17-April 16, 1950, cat. 36.
Baltimore Museum of Art, "Saidie A. May Collection", September 6 - November 22, 1972, Cat. p. 46, ill.
Jan Howard, BMA, "Surrealist Art from the BMA's Collection", March 31-June 20, 1999.
Katy Rothkopf, "Matisse, Picasso and the School of Paris", circulated to; North Carolina Museum of Art, October 10, 2004-January 16, 2005, Naples Museum of Art February 5, 2005-May 1, 2005.
Vancouver Art Gallery, "Surrealism: The Colour of my Dreams: The Surrealist Revolution in Art", May 28-September 25, 2011.
Baltimore Museum of Art, "Saidie A. May Collection", September 6 - November 22, 1972, Cat. p. 46, ill.
Jan Howard, BMA, "Surrealist Art from the BMA's Collection", March 31-June 20, 1999.
Katy Rothkopf, "Matisse, Picasso and the School of Paris", circulated to; North Carolina Museum of Art, October 10, 2004-January 16, 2005, Naples Museum of Art February 5, 2005-May 1, 2005.
Vancouver Art Gallery, "Surrealism: The Colour of my Dreams: The Surrealist Revolution in Art", May 28-September 25, 2011.
The Baltimore Museum of Art News, “Catalogue of the Saidie A. May Collection of Modern Paintings and Sculpture,” March, 1950, cat. 36, p. 14.
Ades, Dawn. "The Colour of My Dreams: The Surrealist Revolution in Art," The Vancouver Art Gallery, 2011, ill. p. 135.
Greeley, Robin Adele, Samantha Kavky, Oliver Shell, and Oliver Tostmann. "Monsters & Myths: Surrealism and War in the 1930s and 1940s." New York, NY: Rizzoli Electa in association with The Baltimore Museum of Art and Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, 2018, ill.
Inscribed: Signed "Max Ernst" lower right.
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