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Max Ernst
The Entire City1935

On view:
Broad Contemporary Art Museum, floor 3
Oil painting in black frame, heavily textured terraced or pyramidal form built from repeating rows of triangular and geometric patterns in charcoal, burnt orange, and amber against a pale gray sky
Artist or Maker
Max Ernst
Germany, also active France and United States, 1891-1976
Title
The Entire City
Date Made
1935
Medium
Oil on paper, mounted on board
Dimensions
9 3/8 × 12 15/16 in. (23.81 × 32.86 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of the 2023 Collectors Committee with additional funds provided by the Ducommun and Gross Endowment, The Robert Gore Rifkind Foundation, Beverly Hills, CA and Wendy Stark
Accession Number
M.2023.86
Classification
Paintings
Collecting Area
Modern Art
Provenance
The artist (1891). Private collection, Paris. [Sale Tableaux et Sculptures des XIX et XXSiecles, Piasa, Paris, 11 December 2000, lot 22]; [Jacques Benador, Geneva]; [sold to Timothy Baum, New York]; sold to Private Collection, New York; [Timothy Baum, New York]; sold in 2023 to LACMA.