Dancer under the starry sky

细节

Max Ernst (1891-1976)
Dancer under the starry sky
signed and dated 'max ernst 51' (lower right)
pastel on blue-grey paper
25½ x 19¾ in. (64.9 x 50.2 cm.)
Executed in 1951

来源

Alexander Iolas Gallery, New York.

出版

E. Quinn & M. Ernst, Textes de Max Ernst, Uwe M. Schneede, Patrick Waldberg, Diane Waldman, Paris, 1976, no. 334, p. 274 (illustrated).
W. Spies, S. & G. Metken, Max Ernst, Werke 1939-1953, Cologne, 1987, no. 2917 (illustrated p. 314).

展览

Dancers, 1951.
Houston, Contemporary Arts Association, Max Ernst, January - February 1952, no. 20.

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拍品专文

This drawing is part of the series of oils and drawings titled Dancer under a Starry Sky (Spies nos. 2904-2923), which Max Ernst executed in Sedona, Arizona, where he was living with his wife Dorothea Tanning in the 1950s. This series reflects Ernst's fascination with the Arizona desert landscape and the Native Americans, whose dances may be the direct inspiration for these dancing figures.