Barbarians Marching to the West

Prints and Drawings

1935

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

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Max Ernst
Title: Barbarians Marching to the West
Place: Germany (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.: 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

Werner Spies, Max Ernst, Werke: 1929–1938 (Menil Foundation/DuMont Buchverlag, 1979), p. 346, no. 2230.
Suzanne Folds McCullagh (ed.), Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection, exh. cat. (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 2006), p. 209, cat. 156 (ill.).

Cologne, Galerie Der Spiegel, “Max Ernst: Neun Bilder,” 1961.
Munich, Haus der Kunst, “Max Ernst,” Feb. 17-Apr. 29, 1979, p. 308, cat. 249; also Berlin, Nationalgalerie, May 10–July 15, 1979.
Stuttgart, Württembergischer Kunstverein, 1900–1945, “Künstler in Deutschland: Individualismus und Tradition,” Sept. 18–Nov. 9, 1986.
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Prized Possessions: European Paintings from Private Collections of Friends of the Museum of Fine Arts, June 17–Aug. 16, 1992, cat. 48, pl. 151.
Art Institute of Chicago, “Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection,” June 3–July 30, 2006, p. 209, cat. 156 (ill.).

Galerie Der Spiegel, Cologne, by 1961. Galerie Thomas Borgmann, Cologne. Galerie Dieter Brusberg, Hanover, by 1979 [Spies 1979]. Sold, Christie’s, London, Mar. 30, 1987, lot 35, to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, Brookline, MA; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2013.

Spies 2230

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