Mervin Jules

Nightmare
1938–1939

This is a black and white etching depicting a chaotic and dark scene titled "Nightmare." The artwork shows a group of menacing, spectral figures with exaggerated, ghostly wings emerging from an open, coffin-like box. In the foreground, a distressed person is recoiling in horror with their hands on their head, seemingly overwhelmed by the apparitions. The image conveys a sense of fear and the surreal nature of a bad dream.
This is a black and white etching depicting a chaotic and dark scene titled "Nightmare." The artwork shows a group of menacing, spectral figures with exaggerated, ghostly wings emerging from an open, coffin-like box. In the foreground, a distressed person is recoiling in horror with their hands on their head, seemingly overwhelmed by the apparitions. The image conveys a sense of fear and the surreal nature of a bad dream.

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Date
1938–1939

Classification
Prints

Medium
Lithograph

Dimensions
Sheet: 11 13/16 × 14 5/8in. (30 × 37.1 cm) Image: 7 15/16 × 9 7/8in. (20.2 × 25.1 cm)

Accession number
96.68.168

Edition
2/12

Publication
Printed by George C. Miller

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from The Lauder Foundation, Leonard and Evelyn Lauder Fund

Rights and reproductions
© artist or artist’s estate

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