Bird-Head (Oiseau-tête)

Max Ernst · 1934-35

This is Bird-Head (Oiseau-tête) — a sculpture by Max Ernst, nineteen thirty-four to nineteen thirty-five. Cast in bronze, almost always by the lost wax method, in which the model is destroyed to release the metal.

Medium Bronze · Dimensions 20 5/8 x 15 x 10 3/8" (52.4 x 38 x 27.3 cm) · Credit Acquired through the James Thrall Soby Bequest

Hanging beside it in Gallery 520: Disks in Echelon, Spoon Woman

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: Torso, Tiari, The Horse, The Devil with Claws, Sleeping Figure, Helmet Head Number 1

More by Max Ernst here: Birds above the Forest (Oiseaux au-dessus de la forêt), Two Children Are Threatened by a Nightingale (Deux Enfants sont menacés par un rossignol), Napoleon in the Wilderness