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Max Ernst

Earthquake, Late Afternoon

1947

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Max Ernst

Earthquake, Late Afternoon

1947

Physical Qualities Oil on canvas, 10 1/4 × 18 1/4 in. (26 × 46.4 cm.)
Credit Line Bequest of Saidie A. May
Object Number 1951.297
The Baltimore Museum of Art by bequest, 1951; The Baltimore Museum of Art on extended loan, 1949-1951; Saidie A. May, by purchase 1949; from M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York
The Baltimore Museum of Art, "The Saidie A. May Collection of Modern paintings and Sculpture", March 17- April 16, 1950, cat. 37.

Goucher College, Towson, Maryland, "Arts Festival", April 25-May 9, 1956.

The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Saidie A. May Collection", September 6-October 22, 1972, ill. p. 47.

Jan Howard, BMA, "Surrealist Art from the BMA's Collection", March 31-June 20, 1999.

Helen Molesworth and Katy Rothkopf, BMA, "European Abstraction from the Collection 1912-1948", February 28-December 2, 2001.

Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, "Impressionism to Surrealism From the Baltimore Museum of Art", February 9-April 21, 2002, cat. 8, p. 15.
The Baltimore Museum of Art News, “Catalogue of the Saidie A. May Collection of Modern Paintings and Sculpture,” March, 1950, cat. 37, p. 14.

Inscribed: FACE: LRC, "Max Ernst 48"

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Max Ernst

French, born Germany, 1891-1976
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