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The Beautiful Season

A work made of graphite and graphite frottage, with smudging and erasing, on cream wove paper.
© 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

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  • A work made of graphite and graphite frottage, with smudging and erasing, on cream wove paper.

Date:

1925

Artist:

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

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Max Ernst

Title

The Beautiful Season

Place

Germany (Artist's nationality:)

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Made 1925

Medium

Graphite and graphite frottage, with smudging and erasing, on cream wove paper

Inscriptions

Signed recto, lower right, in graphite: "max ernst"; inscribed verso, lower left, in graphite: "TSCHI"

Dimensions

20 × 26.4 cm (7 7/8 × 10 7/16 in.)

Credit Line

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

Reference Number

2013.935

Copyright

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

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