Max Ernst
Whip Lashes or Lava Threads
c. 1925
Scroll
Max Ernst
Whip Lashes or Lava Threads
c. 1925
Physical Qualities
Graphite frottage, Sheet: 258 × 424 mm. (10 3/16 × 16 11/16 in.)
Portfolio/Series
from the series, "Natural History"
Credit Line
Gift of Mme. Helena Rubinstein
Object Number
1953.91
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1953; Helena Rubenstein, NY; Jeanne Bucher, Paris
Vancouver Art Museum, "Surrealism: The Colour of my Dreams: The Surrealist Revolution in Art," May 28 - September 25, 2011.
Jan Howard, BMA, "Surrealist Art from the BMA's Collection," 31 March - 20 June 1999.
Jan Howard, BMA, "Abstract Photographs," 22 March - 25 June 1995.
BMA, "BMA Collects: Surrealist Drawings," 27 February - 29 April, 1990.
Kunsthalle, Tubingen, West Germany, "Max Ernst: Masterworks on Paper," 17 September - 27 November 1988; traveled to Kunstmuseum Bern, 7 December - 12 February 1989; Dusseldorf, 19 February - 24 April 1989; Hamburg, 6 May - 2 July 1989.
BMA, "European Drawings and Watercolors, 1914-1940: Selections from the Museum Collection," 19 February - 28 April 1985.
BMA, "Master Drawings and Watercolors of the 19th and 20th Centuries from the Museum Collection," 14 October - 28 November, 1982.
Victor Carlson and Carol Hynning Smith, BMA, "Master Drawings and Watercolors of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries"; circulated by the American Federation of Arts to the Guggenheim Museum, NY, 24 August - 7 October 1979; Des Moines Art Center, 19 November 1979 - 6 January 1980; Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, 8 February - 16 March, 1980; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1 May - 22 June 1980 ; Denver Art Museum, 12 July - 24 August, 1980.
BMA, "20th Century Northern European Drawings and Watercolors," 4 February - 3 April, 1977.
Vierge Poupine, Brussels, "Max Ernst, Histoire Naturelle," 1926, nr. 11.
Jeanne Bucher at Boutique Pierre Chereau, Paris, "Max Ernst, Histoire Naturelle," 1926.
Jan Howard, BMA, "Surrealist Art from the BMA's Collection," 31 March - 20 June 1999.
Jan Howard, BMA, "Abstract Photographs," 22 March - 25 June 1995.
BMA, "BMA Collects: Surrealist Drawings," 27 February - 29 April, 1990.
Kunsthalle, Tubingen, West Germany, "Max Ernst: Masterworks on Paper," 17 September - 27 November 1988; traveled to Kunstmuseum Bern, 7 December - 12 February 1989; Dusseldorf, 19 February - 24 April 1989; Hamburg, 6 May - 2 July 1989.
BMA, "European Drawings and Watercolors, 1914-1940: Selections from the Museum Collection," 19 February - 28 April 1985.
BMA, "Master Drawings and Watercolors of the 19th and 20th Centuries from the Museum Collection," 14 October - 28 November, 1982.
Victor Carlson and Carol Hynning Smith, BMA, "Master Drawings and Watercolors of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries"; circulated by the American Federation of Arts to the Guggenheim Museum, NY, 24 August - 7 October 1979; Des Moines Art Center, 19 November 1979 - 6 January 1980; Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, 8 February - 16 March, 1980; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1 May - 22 June 1980 ; Denver Art Museum, 12 July - 24 August, 1980.
BMA, "20th Century Northern European Drawings and Watercolors," 4 February - 3 April, 1977.
Vierge Poupine, Brussels, "Max Ernst, Histoire Naturelle," 1926, nr. 11.
Jeanne Bucher at Boutique Pierre Chereau, Paris, "Max Ernst, Histoire Naturelle," 1926.
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.
Inscribed: lower right in graphite: "Max Ernst"
