VISUAL ARTS + MUSEUMS

The Menil Collection presents an Illustrated Conversation, featuring William Camfield and Josef Helfenstein, and focusing on the exhibition Max Ernst in the Garden of Nymph Ancolie.

William Camfield, professor emeritus of art history at Rice University, has written extensively on Dada and Surrealism.

His books include the critical biography Francis Picabia and the catalogue Max Ernst: Dada and the Dawn of Surrealism, which accompanied the 1993 exhibition at The Menil Collection and The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

He and Josef Helfenstein, director of The Menil Collection, discuss Ernst’s newly restored mural Pétales et jardin de la nymphe Ancolie, 1934, within the context of the artist’s career.

Pictured: Max Ernst and Dominique de Menil at the exhibition “Max Ernst: Inside the Sight,” Rice Museum, Houston, 1973. Photo: Hickey-Robertson.