Marc Chagall, Kurt Seligmann, and others
Eiffel Tower
1941
Scroll
Physical Qualities
Etching with open bite, Sheet: 457 × 351 mm. (18 × 13 13/16 in.)
Plate: 276 × 202 mm. (10 7/8 × 7 15/16 in.)
Framed: 26 1/4 × 20 1/4 × 2 in. (66.7 × 51.4 × 5.1 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of Saidie A. May
Object Number
1948.54.4
Saidie A. May, Baltimore
BMA, Vivian Benesch Gallery for Drawings, "Chagall's Exodus," October 23 - December 30, 1990.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, "Exiles and Emigrés: The Flight of European Artists from Hitler, 1933-1945," 20 February - 11 May 1997.
Darsie Alexander, BMA, "Mechanical Form/Mechanical Vision," December 12, 2001 - April 7, 2002.
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, "Impressionism to Surrealism From the Baltimore Museum of Art. Selections from the Collection of Claribel and Etta Cone, Saidie Adler May and Blanche Adler," February 8 - April 21, 2002, no. 52e, pp. 23.
National Academy of Design, New York, "Surrealism in America," February 17, 2005 - May 8, 2005; tour to Phoenix Art Museum, June 5 - September 25, 2005.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, "Exiles and Emigrés: The Flight of European Artists from Hitler, 1933-1945," 20 February - 11 May 1997.
Darsie Alexander, BMA, "Mechanical Form/Mechanical Vision," December 12, 2001 - April 7, 2002.
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, "Impressionism to Surrealism From the Baltimore Museum of Art. Selections from the Collection of Claribel and Etta Cone, Saidie Adler May and Blanche Adler," February 8 - April 21, 2002, no. 52e, pp. 23.
National Academy of Design, New York, "Surrealism in America," February 17, 2005 - May 8, 2005; tour to Phoenix Art Museum, June 5 - September 25, 2005.
Eric M. Zafran, "Impressionism to Surrealism from The Baltimore Museum of Art. Selections from the Collection of Claribel and Etta Cone, Saidie Adler May, and Blanche Adler," Hartford: Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, 2002.
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.
Signed: 1
Inscribed: RECTO: LRE(graphite); [artist signature] 'Marc Chagall'
