
Max Ernst
In the Streets of Athens
1960
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Max Ernst
1932
Ferdinand Cheval (1836–1924) was a postman in Hauterives, in the Rhône-Alpes of France, who over a thirty-three-year period built a still-extant Palais Idéal in a bizarre, eclectic style using materials gathered on his postal rounds. As a man who constructed his dreams, Cheval posthumously became a hero for Surrealist artists. Max Ernst, in the guise of his alter ego Loplop Superior of Birds (present here both in the gouached bird on the left and in the rectangular blue figure with head and cravat on the right), pays homage to him in this collage, which is part of a series titled Loplop Introduces . . .
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Artist | Max Ernst |
Original Title | Le Facteur Cheval |
Date | 1932 |
Medium | Oil, watercolor, graphite, ink, chromolithography, paper, and fabric collage on paper |
Dimensions | 64.3 x 48.9 cm |
Credit line | Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice (Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York) |
Accession | 76.2553 PG 74 |
Collection | Peggy Guggenheim Collection |
Type | Work on paper |
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Max Ernst
1960
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Max Ernst
1944
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Max Ernst
1933
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Max Ernst
1941–1942
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