Marceline and Marie

1929–30

Max Ernst
American and French, born Germany, 1891-1976

Status: On View, Gallery 397
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Max Ernst
Title: Marceline and Marie
Place: United States (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1929–1930
Medium: Collage composed of printed, cut elements, with touches of watercolor, laid down on cream wove paper
Inscriptions: Signed, lower left: "Max Ernst"; inscribed, verso: ""Marceline et Marie (d'une seule voix)" "Il me semble que le ciel descend dans mon coeur..." (Marceline and Marie [of one voice]: "It seems to me the sky is falling into my heart...")
Dimensions: 23.9 × 16.7 cm (9 7/16 × 6 5/8 in.)
Credit Line: Lindy and Edwin Bergman Collection
Reference Number: 2018.317
Copyright: © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

Irving] H. Sandler, “Reviews and Previews,” Art News 58:9 (Jan. 1960), p. 14.
Ernst Katalog, vol. 4 (1979), pp. ix, 47, no. 655 (ill.).
Max Ernst, A Little Girl Dreams of Taking the Veil, translated by Dorothea Tanning (New York, 1982), pp. 150-51 (ill.).
Ernst Collages 1991 (1974), fig. 380.
Dawn Ades, with Margherita Andreotti and Adam Jolles, Surrealist Art: The Lindy and Edwin Bergman Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1997), p. 127, cat. 64 (color ill.).

New York, Bodley Gallery, “Yves Tanguy: Ten Gouaches and One Drawing; Max Ernst: Twenty-Four Original Collages for “Rêve d’une petite fille qui voulut entrer au Carmel,” 1960, hors cat.
New York, D’Arcy Galleries, “Surrealist Intrusion in the Enchanter’s Domain: International Surrealist Exhibition,” 1960-1961, cat. 50.
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, “Max Ernst: A Retrospective,” 1975, cat. 146 (ill.).
Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, “Max Ernst,” 1975, cat. 179.
Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, “Dada and Surrealism in Chicago Collections,” 1984–1985, p. 143 (ill.).
Kunsthalle Tübingen, “Max Ernst: Die Welt der Collage,” 1988-1989, cat. 161, fig. 320.

Sold by the Bodley Gallery, New York, Lindy and Edwin Bergman, Chicago, 1960; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2018.

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