2012.204.3: Le Triomphe de l'Amour/Triumph of Love
PrintsThe black and white print shows a female figure on the right with her arms upraised. She is standing on the right end a large shape which stretches from the left to the right of the picture plane. The female figure is standing on group of rounded shapes. Behind her is a twisted triangular handle. From the handle on the left is a wing shaped object, beneath it is an elongated shape with an eye and teeth. The form is supported by branch-like structures rising from the lower right corner. A series of hills are visible in the background.
Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2012.204.3
- People
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Max Ernst, German (Brühl, Germany 1891 - 1976 Paris, France)
- Title
- Le Triomphe de l'Amour/Triumph of Love
- Other Titles
- Series/Book Title: The Guaranteed Surrealist Postcard Series
- Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- print, postcard
- Date
- 1937
- Culture
- German
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/342729
Physical Descriptions
- Technique
- Photo offset lithograph
- Dimensions
- 9.2 x 14.1 cm (3 5/8 x 5 9/16 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Jack Banning, New York, [Christie's East], sold: to Rick Wester, Dobbs Ferry, New York, gift; to Harvard Art Museums, 2012.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Rick Wester and Jennifer Garvin
- Copyright
- © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
- Accession Year
- 2012
- Object Number
- 2012.204.3
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Exhibition History
- 32Q: 1300 Early Modernism, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/18/2018 - 10/17/2019
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Verification Level
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