Barbarians Marching to the West

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Max Ernst

Title

Barbarians Marching to the West

Place

Germany (Artist's nationality:)

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Made 1935

Medium

Oil paint, with frottage, wiping, and scraping, on tan wove paper, laid down on cardboard

Inscriptions

Signed recto, lower right, in brush and gray oil paint: "max ernst"; inscribed verso, upper left, in pen and black ballpoint pen: "Jan Hubert/5688"; lower right, in pen and black ballpoint pen: "34063 Cologne"; sticker verso: "DU /1701"

Dimensions

23 × 31.7 cm (9 1/16 × 12 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection

Reference Number

2013.934

Copyright

© 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

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