Untitled (The Bird People)

1942

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

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

Artist: Max Ernst
Title: Untitled (The Bird People)
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.: 1942
Medium: Colored crayons on orange wove paper
Inscriptions: Signed, lower right: "max ernst"
Dimensions: 45.5 × 35.5 cm (17 15/16 × 14 in.)
Credit Line: Lindy and Edwin Bergman Collection
Reference Number: 2018.320
Copyright: © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

Ernst Katalog, vol. 5 (1987), pp. viii, 58, no. 2414 (ill.).
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. 134, cat. 68 (color ill.).

New York, Museum of Modern Art, “Max Ernst,” 1961, cat. 227; also Chicago.
Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, “Dada and Surrealism in Chicago Collections,” 1984–1985, p. 147 (ill.).
Art Institute of Chicago, “A Tribute to Edwin A. Bergman (1917–1986): Selections from the Lindy and Edwin Bergman Collection,” 1986, pamphlet no. 20.

Sold by Holland-Goldowsky Gallery, Inc., Chicago, to Lindy and Edwin Bergman, Chicago, 1958; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2018.

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