Two Children Are Threatened by a Nightingale (Deux Enfants sont menacés par un rossignol)

Max Ernst · 1924

This is Two Children Are Threatened by a Nightingale, by Max Ernst, nineteen twenty-four. The frame is part of the work, and so is the little wooden gate and the knob you could in principle turn: the painting reaches out past its own edge into the room you are standing in.

Medium Oil with painted wood elements and cut-and-pasted printed paper on wood with wood frame · Dimensions 27 1/2 x 22 1/2 x 4 1/2" (69.8 x 57.1 x 11.4 cm) · Credit Purchase

Hanging beside it in Gallery 517: The Serenity of the Scholar, Seahorse

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: Bookcase doors for the Dana House, Springfield, IL, Reggio School, Madrid, Spain, Boy looking at his mother. Staten Island Ferry. New York harbor from the series Fish Story

More by Max Ernst here: Birds above the Forest (Oiseaux au-dessus de la forêt), Bird-Head (Oiseau-tête), Napoleon in the Wilderness