Jimmy Ernst Art
American, German, 1920-1984
An important and influential artist and educator, Jimmy Ernst was associated with two of the twentieth century's major art movements—Surrealism and Abstract Expressionism. The son of the Surrealist painter Max Ernst and the art historian Louise Straus, he was born Hans Ulrich Ernst in Cologne, Germany, on June 24, 1920. His parents divorced two years later, and his father moved to Paris, while Ernst stayed in Cologne with his mother.
In 1930, Ernst traveled to Paris to visit his father, where he met many of the Surrealists including Luis Buñuel, Salvador Dalí, Andre Masson, Jean Miró, and Man Ray. After Hitler's rise to power in 1933, the Ernst apartment in Cologne was searched, and his mother began to fear for their safety. He was sent to live with his maternal grandfather, while his mother moved to Paris. Five years later, in 1938, Ernst immigrated to the United States. After settling in New York, he met other European exiles and members of the avant-garde.
Ernst petitioned the Emergency Rescue Committee in 1941 to help his parents escape France. His father successfully fled Europe in 1941, arriving in America with Peggy Guggenheim. However, his attempt to rescue his mother was unsuccessful. In 1944 she was sent to Auschwitz, where she died.
Ernst had his first solo exhibition at Norlyst Gallery in New York in 1941. On October 20, 1942, Guggenheim's legendary Art of this Century Gallery opened with Ernst as Director, a role that further associated him with the New York avant-garde.
In 1950, he joined such eminent artists as Willem de Kooning, Robert Motherwell, Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko in the famous "Irascible Eighteen." The largely Abstract Expressionist group protested the perceived anti-abstractionist bias of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and drew much attention to the New York School. Throughout the 1950s and 1960s Ernst exhibited in the Grace Borgenicht Gallery, Inc., New York, and in various other galleries across in the United States and abroad.
Ernst married Edith Dallas Bauman in 1947. They had two children, Amy Louise (1953) and Eric Max (1956). In 1969 Ernst moved to East Hampton, New York where he lived off and on for the rest of his life. In 1982 he was awarded an honorary Doctorate by Southampton College of Long Island University. Shortly before his death, in 1983, Ernst was elected to the American Academy and the Institute of Arts and Letters, both in New York.
Ernst died suddenly of a stroke on February 6, 1984, in New York.
His works are owned by numerous world-class public collections, including the Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York; the Art Institute of Chicago; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.(Biography provided by Lincoln Glenn)
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Artist: Jimmy Ernst
"Personal Equation" Jimmy Ernst, Abstract Surrealism, Black, Red, Blue, White
By Jimmy Ernst
Located in New York, NY
Jimmy Ernst
Personal Equation, 1950
Signed and dated lower right
Oil on canvas
41 x 39 1/2 inches
Provenance:
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Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York
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1940s Surrealist Jimmy Ernst Art
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Untitled 1963 Abstract Oil Painting by Jimmy Ernst
By Jimmy Ernst
Located in Hudson, NY
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1960s Abstract Expressionist Jimmy Ernst Art
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Masonite, Oil
1970 Signed Limited Edition Large Screen Print III
By Jimmy Ernst
Located in Rochester Hills, MI
Jimmy Ernst
Plate I - 1970
Print - Screen Print on Heavy Paper 28'' x 37'' inches
Edition: Signed in pencil and numbered 112/125
Jimmy Ernst’s artwork was influenced by a number of powerful talents and vital currents in the art of his time. Son of Max Ernst, Jimmy drew upon the biomorphic and surreal compositions of his father, as well as Arp, Klee, André Breton, and Lyonel Feininger. His mature oil paintings, which emerged in the 1950s and 1960s, reflect the Atomic Age aesthetic of the period. Often, they resemble crystals or webs; many look like vast labyrinths and are interpreted as symbols of the unconscious mind.
Ernst was always interested in spirituality and drew inspiration from indigenous American art...
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1970s Abstract Jimmy Ernst Art
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Screen
1970 Signed Limited Edition Large Screen Print V
By Jimmy Ernst
Located in Rochester Hills, MI
Jimmy Ernst
Plate IV - 1970
Print - Screen Print on Heavy Paper 28'' x 37'' inches
Edition: Signed in pencil and numbered 125/125
Jimmy Ernst’s artwork was influenced by a number of powerful talents and vital currents in the art of his time. Son of Max Ernst, Jimmy drew upon the biomorphic and surreal compositions of his father, as well as Arp, Klee, André Breton, and Lyonel Feininger. His mature oil paintings, which emerged in the 1950s and 1960s, reflect the Atomic Age aesthetic of the period. Often, they resemble crystals or webs; many look like vast labyrinths and are interpreted as symbols of the unconscious mind.
Ernst was always interested in spirituality and drew inspiration from indigenous American art...
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1970s Abstract Jimmy Ernst Art
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1970 Signed Limited Edition Large Screen Print II
By Jimmy Ernst
Located in Rochester Hills, MI
Jimmy Ernst
Plate II - 1970
Print - Screen Print on Heavy Paper 28'' x 37'' inches
Edition: Signed in pencil and numbered 24/125
Jimmy Ernst’s artwork was influenced by a number of powerful talents and vital currents in the art of his time. Son of Max Ernst, Jimmy drew upon the biomorphic and surreal compositions of his father, as well as Arp, Klee, André Breton, and Lyonel Feininger. His mature oil paintings, which emerged in the 1950s and 1960s, reflect the Atomic Age aesthetic of the period. Often, they resemble crystals or webs; many look like vast labyrinths and are interpreted as symbols of the unconscious mind.
Ernst was always interested in spirituality and drew inspiration from indigenous American art...
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1970s Abstract Jimmy Ernst Art
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Screen
Hieroglyphics, Silkscreen by Jimmy Ernst
By Jimmy Ernst
Located in Long Island City, NY
Hieroglyphics by Jimmy Ernst, American (1920–1984)
Date: 1969
Screenprint, signed, numbered, and dated in pencil
Edition of 41/50
Size: 22 x 18 in. (55.88 x 45.72 cm)
Frame Size: 25....
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1960s Abstract Expressionist Jimmy Ernst Art
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Screen
Plate I, Screenprint by Jimmy Ernst
By Jimmy Ernst
Located in Long Island City, NY
Plate I
Jimmy Ernst, American (1920–1984)
Date: 1970
Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition of 71/125
Image Size: 33 x 22.5 inches
Size: 37 x 28 in. (93.98 x 71.12 cm)
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1970s Abstract Geometric Jimmy Ernst Art
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Screen
Untitled, Lithograph by Jimmy Ernst
By Jimmy Ernst
Located in Long Island City, NY
Date: circa 1970
Lithograph, signed, numbered, and dedicated in pencil
Edition of EA XII/XV
Image Size: 15 x 12 inches
Size: 22 x 17.5 in. (55.88 x 44.45 cm)
Frame Size: 23 x 19 inches
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1970s Abstract Expressionist Jimmy Ernst Art
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Lithograph
Intersections, Ink and Wash Drawing by Jimmy Ernst
By Jimmy Ernst
Located in Long Island City, NY
Intersections by Jimmy Ernst, American (1920–1984)
Date: 1979
Wash on Arches paper, signed and dated in pencil lower right
Image Size: 25 x 40 inches
Frame Size: 35 x 44.5 inches
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1970s Abstract Expressionist Jimmy Ernst Art
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Ink, Watercolor
Black on Black #4
By Jimmy Ernst
Located in Miami, FL
The artist has painted the work in matte black and gloss black. It a sense this is also an optical art “Op Art” in that it changes as the light changes. Jimmy Ernst was a major figure of the New York School of abstract painting and part of The Irascibles, and son of Max Ernst:
Provenance: Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York, New York; Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York and Washington, D.C. (acquired from the above in 1966); Joseph H. Hirshhorn bequest, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C., 1981; Sotheby's Arcade, New York, New York, February 24, 1995, lot 331; The Jeanne and Carroll Berry...
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1960s Abstract Expressionist Jimmy Ernst Art
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Geometric Abstract Silkscreen by Jimmy Ernst
By Jimmy Ernst
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Jimmy Ernst
Title: Untitled
Year: 1970
Medium: Serigraph, Signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 52/125
Paper Size: 27.5 x 37 inches (69.85 x 93.98 cm)
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1970s Abstract Geometric Jimmy Ernst Art
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Screen
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