Max Ernst and VVV
The Bird People
1941-1942
Scroll
Physical Qualities
Black crayon frottage, reworked with colored wax crayon and pastel, on orange paper, Sheet: 457 x 356 mm. (18 x 14 in.)
Credit Line
The Cone Collection, formed by Dr. Claribel Cone and Miss Etta Cone of Baltimore, Maryland
Object Number
1950.12.758.5
Miss Etta Cone, Baltimore
Sawin, Martica; Surrealism in Exile and the Beginning of the New York School, MIT Press, c. 1995, pp. 190-193. Illust. Breton, Carrington, Motherwell. Kaplan, Gilbert (ed.); Surrealist Prints, Harry N. Abrams, Inc.; c. 1997 Atlantis, p.96. Lippard, Lucy R.(ed.); Surrealists on Art; Prentice Hall, Inc. Englewood Cliffs NJ, c. 1970. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NY; Max Ernst: A Retrospective, exhibition catalog, 1975. Quinn, Edward; Max Ernst; NY Graphic Society, c. 1976 Edicones Poligraphia SA, Fig. 268, p. 226 (VVV drawing similar to Le Peuple des Oiseaux, 1941, color pastel on gray paper, 46 x 33 cm, private collection). Ades, Dawn, et. al.; Surrealist Art The Lindy and Edwin Bergman Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago; Thames & Hudson, c. 1997, # 68 (drawing similar but not part of VVV portfolio).
Inscribed: lower right in graphite:"Max Ernst"
