Object Information

Max Ernst
French, born Germany, 1891–1976

Spanish Physician, 1940

Oil on canvas
14 3/4 x 21 1/4 in. (37.5 x 54 cm)
inscribed, l.r.: "max ernst 40"
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Randall Shapiro, 1996.392

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

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

New York, Valentine Gallery, Exhibition Max Ernst, March 23-April 11, 1942, cat. 6.

Washington, D.C., Caresse Crosby Gallery, Max Ernst/Dorothea Tanning, March 15-April 10, 1946, cat. 7.

Chicago, Arts Club, Surrealism Then and Now, October 1-30, 1958, cat. 20 (ill.).

New York, Museum of Modern Art, Max Ernst, March 1-May 7, 1961, pp. 42 (ill.), 54, cat. 88; traveled to Chicago, Art Institute, June 16-July 23, 1961.

London, Tate Gallery, Max Ernst, September 7-October 15, 1961, p. 55, cat. 137 (ill.).

Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Selections from the Joseph Randall Shapiro Collection, December 20, 1969-February 1, 1970, cat. 25 (ill.).

Chicago, Arts Club, The Horse as Motif, 1200 B.C.-1966 A.D., January 15-February 22, 1975, pp. 44-45, cat. 71 (ill.).

Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Dada and Surrealism in Chicago Collections, December 1, 1984-January 27, 1985, pp. 11, pl. 3 (color ill.), 147.

Chicago, Art Institute, The Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Randall Shapiro Collection, February 23-April 14, 1985, cat. 55, fig. 44.

Publication History

“Catalogue: Exhibition Max Ernst,” View 2 (April 1942), p. 18, cat. 6.

Caresse Crosby Gallery, Max Ernst/Dorothea Tanning, exh. cat. (Washington, D.C.: Caresse Crosby Gallery, 1946), cat. 7.

Arts Club of Chicago, Surrealism Then and Now, exh. cat. (Chicago: Arts Club of Chicago, 1958), cat. 20 (ill.).

Martica, Sawin, “The Max Ernst Exhibition,” Arts 35, 7 (April 1961), p. 44 (ill.).

Museum of Modern Art, Max Ernst, exh. cat. (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1961), pp. 42 (ill), 54, cat. 88.

Tate Gallery, Max Ernst, exh. cat. (London: Arts Council of Great Britain, 1961), p. 55, cat. 137 (ill.).

Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Selections from the Joseph Randall Shapiro Collection, exh. cat. (Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Art, 1969), cat. 25 (ill.).

Arts Club of Chicago, The Horse as Motif, 1200 B.C.-1966 A.D., exh. cat. (Chicago: Arts Club of Chicago, 1975), pp. 44-45, cat. 71 (ill.).

Ades, Dawn, et. al., Terry Ann R. Neff, ed., In the Mind’s Eye: Dada and Surrealism, exh. cat. (Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Art, 1985), pp. 11, pl. 3 (color ill.), 147.

Art Institute of Chicago, The Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Randall Shapiro Collection, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1985), cat. 55, fig. 44.

Spies, Werner, Sigrid Metken, and Günter Metken, Max Ernst: Werke 1939-1953 (Houston and Cologne, 1987), p. 28, no. 2357 (ill).

Ownership History

Julien Levy Gallery, New York [Spies, Metken, and Metken 1987]. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Randall Shapiro, Oak Park, Ill., by 1961 [New York 1961]; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1996.