About This Artwork

Max Ernst
French, born Germany, 1891–1976

Dada Gauguin, 1920

Gouache and ink on printed paper
11 7/16 x 15 3/4 in. (30.3 x 40 cm)
Signed, l.r.: "max ernst/1920"
Partial gift of Muriel and Maurice F. Fulton, 1994.834

© 2008 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Paris, Au Sans Pareil, Exposition Dada Max Ernst, May 3-June 3, 1921, no. 42.

Besançon, Palais Granvelle, Surréalism et Précurseurs, 1961, no.83.

Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, December 28, 1962-March 3, 1963, no. 128 (illus. no. 7); traveled to Zurich, Kunsthaus, March 23-April 28, 1963.

Paris, Galerie Charpentier, Le Surréalism, Sources, Histoires, Affinités, July-August 1964, no. 118.

Paris, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Dada, Exposition Commémorative du Cinquantenaire, November 30, 1966-January 30, 1967, no. 468.New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Max Ernst: A Retrospective, 1975, no. 38.

Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Dada and Surrealism in Chicago Collections, December 1, 1984–January 27, 1985.

Dusseldorf, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, February 19–April 23, 1989, no. 41.

London, The Tate Gallery, Max Ernst: A Retrospective, February 13-April 21, 1991, no. 30; traveled to Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie, May 18-August 4, 1991.

New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Max Ernst, March 14-May 2, 1993, no. 59 (illus. no. 61); traveled to Houston, The Menil Collection, May 28-August 29, 1993, and Chicago, The Art Institute, September 15-November 30, 1993.

Chicago, The Museum of Contemporary Art, In the Mind’s Eye. Dada and Surrealism, December 1, 1984-January 27,1985, pl. 16.

Publication History

“Au-dela de la peinture,” Cahiers d’Art 11 (1936), pp. 8-10, 267-272 (ill.).

Gualtieri San Lazzaro, ed., Homage to Max Ernst, special issue of the XX Siecle Review (Milan, 1971).

Werner Spies, Max Ernst. Collages (New York, 1988), no. 19.

Ludger Derenthal and Jürgen Pech, Max Ernst (Paris, 1992), p. 44 (ill.).

Ownership History

Paul Eluard, Paris. Edouard Loeb, Paris. Barry Miller, London [email from Maurice Fulton, May 11, 2000 in curatorial file]; Sold to B.C. Holland Gallery, Chicago [email mentioned above]; Sold to Maurice Fulton, Glencoe, Illinois [email mentioned above]; gift to Art Institute, 1994.