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Max Ernst

Whip Lashes or Lava Threads

1924

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Max Ernst

Whip Lashes or Lava Threads

1924

Physical Qualities Graphite frottage, Sheet: 258 × 424 mm. (10 3/16 × 16 11/16 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Mme. Helena Rubinstein
Object Number 1953.91

Publication References

Werner Spies, "Max Ernst Werke 1925-1929," Houston: Menil Fnd and Cologne, 1976, no. 800, illus. p. 5.
Werner Spies, "Max Ernst Collagen, Inventar und Widerspruch," Cologne: DuMont Buchverlag, 1988, no 99.
Carlson, Victor, and Carol Hynning Smith. Master Drawings and Watercolors of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: The Baltimore Museum of Art. New York, NY: The American Federation of Arts, 1979, pp. 127, ill.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1953; Helena Rubenstein, NY; Jeanne Bucher, Paris
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Artist

Max Ernst

French, born Germany, 1891-1976
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