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{{Short description|Collage by Max Ernst}}
{{Infobox artwork
| image_file=Murdering_Airplane.jpg
| backcolor=#FBF5DF 
| image_size=400px 
| title=Murdering Airplane
| artist=[[Max Ernst]] 
| year=1920
| type=[[Photo-collage]]
| height_metric=5.8
| width_metric=14.3
| metric_unit=cm
| imperial_unit=in
| city= 
| museum=The [[Menil Collection]], Houston, Texas, USA 
}}
'''''Murdering Airplane''''' (1920) is a [[collage]] by the [[Germany|German]] [[dada]]ist [[Max Ernst]]. Early publications identify this piece as simply ''Untitled collage''.<ref name="Hofmann et al. (1973)">Hofmann, Werner, Wieland Schmied, and Werner Spies (1973) ''Max Ernst, Inside the Sight.'' Institute for the Arts, Rice University. Houston, Texas. 159 pp.</ref>{{rp|33 & 145 p.}}<ref name="Picon (1977)">Picon, Gaëtan (1977) ''Surrealist and Surrealism 1919- 1939.'' Skira/Rizzoli International Publications, Inc. New York. 231 pp.{{ISBN|0-8478-0041-5}}</ref>{{rp|40–41 & 208 pp.}} One book, in which Max Ernst made some contributions, identifies the piece as "''Untitled'' or ''The Deadly Female Aeroplane'' (''L'avionne meurtrière'')".<ref name="Quinn (1977)">Quinn, Edward, with contribution from Max Ernst, Uwe M. Schneede, Patrick Waldberg, and Diane Waldman. (1977) ''Max Ernst.'' New York Graphic Society (Little, Brown, and Company), Boston. 444 pp. {{ISBN|0-8212-0711-3}}</ref>{{rp|76 p.}}	

It depicts a monstrous aircraft with human arms flying over an open field. In the lower right-hand corner two soldiers are carrying a third wounded soldier. The Dada movement was created partly as a critical response to [[World War I]]. This had a special significance to Ernst who served in the war. This work was a statement on the advent of aerial warfare that occurred in that war.

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[[Category:Aviation art]]
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