id: 162323 accession number: 2002.55 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2002.55 updated: 2025-05-02 11:08:43.458000 Le Déjeuner sur l'Herbre, 1944. Max Ernst (German, 1891–1976). Oil on canvas; framed: 87.3 x 171.1 x 5.7 cm (34 3/8 x 67 3/8 x 2 1/4 in.); unframed: 68 x 150 cm (26 3/4 x 59 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund, 2002.55. © 1944 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ ADAGP, Paris title: Le Déjeuner sur l'Herbre title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1944 creation date earliest: 1944 creation date latest: 1944 current location: 225 German Expressionism & Surrealism creditline: Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund copyright: © 1944 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ ADAGP, Paris --- culture: Germany, 20th century technique: oil on canvas department: Modern European Painting and Sculpture collection: Mod Euro - Painting 1800-1960 type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Max Ernst (German, 1891–1976) - artist --- measurements: Framed: 87.3 x 171.1 x 5.7 cm (34 3/8 x 67 3/8 x 2 1/4 in.); Unframed: 68 x 150 cm (26 3/4 x 59 1/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: signed and dated lower right: max ernst 44 translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Max Ernst: A Retrospective opening date: 2005-04-04T00:00:00 Max Ernst: A Retrospective. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (organizer) (April 4-July 10, 2005). title: Monet to Dalí: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2006-05-27T00:00:00 Monet to Dalí: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Beijing World Art Museum, China (May 26-August 27, 2006); Mori Art Center (September 16-November 26, 2006); Seoul Art Center, South Korea (December 22, 2006-March 28, 2007); Seoul Olympic Museum of Art, South Korea (April 7-May 20, 2007); Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada (June 9-September 16, 2007); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 21, 2007-January 13, 2008); Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN (February 15-June 1, 2008); Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT (June 22-September 21, 2008); The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (October 12, 2008-January 18, 2009). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Max Ernst. Julien Levy Gallery, New York City. (April 24 - May 8, 1944).', 'opening_date': '1944-04-24T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Max Ernst: Thirty Years of his Work, A Survey. Copley Galleries, Beverly Hills, CA. (January 10 - February 20, 1949).', 'opening_date': '1949-01-10T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Max Ernst. Galerie René Drouin, Paris, (1950).', 'opening_date': '1950-01-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Max Ernst, A Retrospective. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris. (1975).', 'opening_date': '1975-01-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Max Ernst: Retrospektive. Haus der Kunst, Munich. (1979).', 'opening_date': '1979-01-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Max Ernst. A Retrospective. Tate Gallery, London. (1991).', 'opening_date': '1991-01-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Surrealism: Two Private Eyes, The Nesuhi and Daniel Filipacchi Collections. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. (1999).', 'opening_date': '1999-01-01T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE William N. Copley, New York, acquired from the artist (1948); (Sotheby, Parke-Bernet, NY, William N. Copley Collection, Nov. 5-6, 1979, no. 51.); (Sotheby, Parke-Bernet, NY, Julien Levy Collection, Nov. 5, 1979, no. 50. ??) Daniel Filipacchi, Paris/New York date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Beyond Painting: And Other Writings. Translated by Dorothea Tanning and Ralph Manheim. New York: Wittenborn, Schultz, 1948. page number: Reproduced: p. 97 url: Schneede, Uwe M. Max Ernst. Translated by R. W. Last. New York: Praeger, 1972. page number: Reproduced: p. 183, no. 357 url: Max Ernst: A Retrospective. New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1975. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 198, no. 205 url: Quinn, Edward. Max Ernst. Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1977. page number: Reproduced: p. 241, no. 283 url: Werner Spies, ed. Max Ernst: Retrospektive 1979: [Ausstellung, Haus Der Kunst MüNchen 17. Februar Bis 29. April 1979, Nationalgalerie Berlin 10. Mai Bis 15. Juli 1979]: Katalog. München: Prestel-Verlag, 1979. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 321, no. 274 url: Gimferrer, Pere. Max Ernst. New York: Rizzoli, 1983. page number: Mentioned: p. 126; Reproduced: no. 111 url: Spies, Werner, Sigrid Metken, and Günter Metken. Max Ernst: Werke 1939-1953. Houston Texas, Köln: Menil Foundation; M. DuMont Schauberg, 1987. page number: Mentioned: p. 82; Reproduced: no. 2459 url: Werner Spies, ed. Max Ernst, a Retrospective. London: Tate Gallery in association with Prestel, 1991. page number: Reproduced: p. 240, no. 212 url: Derenthal, Ludger, and Jürgen Pech. Max Ernst. [Paris]: Nouvelles éditions françaises, 1992. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 211, ill. 348 url: Turpin, Ian, and Julian Stallabrass. Ernst. 2nd ed., rev. and enl. London: Phaidon Books, 1993. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 106-107, no. 38 url: Weisberger, Edward, and Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Surrealism, Two Private Eyes: The Nesuhi Ertegun and Daniel Filipacchi Collections. New York, N.Y.: Guggenheim Museum: Hardcover edition distributed by Harry N. Abrams, 1999. page number: Reproduced: p. 144-145, no. 84, Vol. I url: Cleveland Museum of Art, “Max Ernst Painting Featured Among Cleveland Museum of Art’s New Acquisitions,” June 25, 2002, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. page number: url: https://archive.org/details/cmapr4457 Spies, Werner, Sabine Rewald, and Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). Max Ernst : A Retrospective. New York, New Haven: Metropolitan Museum of Art ; Yale University Press, 2005. page number: Reproduced: p. 247, no. 143 url: Russell, John. Max Ernst: Life and Work. New York: H.N. Abrams, 1967. page number: Reproduced: no. 88; Mentioned: p. 347 url: --- IMAGES