Three Sharks in Search of a Victim

1967

Max Ernst

Artist, German, 1891 - 1976

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    color etching and aquatint with hand coloring

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Jacob Kainen

  • Accession

    2002.98.276

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Leppien 1975, no. 120

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Jacob Kainen, Washington, D.C.; gift to NGA, 2002.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2002

  • An Artist's Artists: Jacob Kainen's Collection from Rembrandt to David Smith, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2002-2003, as Three Sharks in Search of a Victim.

Bibliography

1975

  • Leppien, Helmut R. Max Ernst: Das Graphische Werk. Houston, TX: Menil Foundation; Cologne: Verlag M. DuMont Schauberg, 1975.

Inscriptions

lower left in graphite: 62/99; lower right in graphite: Max Ernst

Wikidata ID

Q76348426

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