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The Chant

© Estate of Jimmy Ernst / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

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Jimmy Ernst

American, born Germany, 1920-1984

The Chant, 1955

oil on canvas

support: 50 1/4 x 60 inches (127.64 x 152.4 cm)

Collection Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York

Gift of Seymour H. Knox, Jr., 1955

K1955:7

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signature, dated / lower right / Jimmy Ernst 55

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Oil painting (visual work)

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