Max ErnstUne Pyramide en Colère, Micro-Painting on Leather by Max Ernst1947
1947
About the Item
- Creator:Max Ernst (1891-1976, American, German, French)
- Creation Year:1947
- Dimensions:Height: 12.21 in (31 cm)Width: 11.03 in (28 cm)Depth: 0.6 in (1.5 cm)
- Medium:
- Movement & Style:
- Period:
- Condition:Insurance may be requested by customers as additional service, contact us for more information.
- Gallery Location:Roma, IT
- Reference Number:
Max Ernst
Born in Germany in 1891, later naturalized as an American, then a French citizen, Max Ernst was a pioneer in the Dada and Surrealist movements, the boundaries of which he pushed with his unconventional methods of printmaking, drawing and collage.
Ernst had no formal art training — and that may have been his greatest asset. He produced his first work following four years serving in World War I. At the time, he was in Cologne, Germany, working closely with fellow Dada pioneers Jean Arp and Johannes Baargeld. His output during this period consisted largely of collages, which allowed him to represent the shards, rubble and explosions from his traumatic wartime experience.
In 1922, Ernst moved to France, where he soon became affiliated with Surrealism, the avant-garde art movement taking shape in Paris. Alongside Man Ray, Joan Miró and a couple of others, Ernst was among the first visual artists to experiment with imagery and techniques associated with Surrealism.
Ernst’s greatest contribution to the Surrealist movement was his invention of frottage (French for “rubbing”), wherein an artist rubs a pencil or crayon over a paper atop a textured surface, and later grattage (French for “scraping”), where a similar technique is applied with paint. Both methods showcase Ernst’s fascination with the unconscious and serendipitous elements of artistic creation, a theme that connected the Dadaists and the Surrealists. Ernst had deep knowledge of psychoanalysis and Sigmund Freud’s dream theories, which were big influences on Surrealists. He was among the first Surrealists to use Freud’s work to examine his own creative impulses. He also published a series of books of his collages, all of which were deeply symbolic and often philosophical.
When Germany occupied France during World War II, Ernst escaped to America with the help of patron and collector Peggy Guggenheim, whom he married in 1941. While living in New York, Ernst’s work and techniques proved instrumental in inspiring the early development of Abstract Expressionism — influencing Robert Motherwell and Jackson Pollock in particular. He later moved to Sedona, Arizona, where he lived with his fourth wife, Dorothea Tanning, a fellow Surrealist and prolific visual artist and poet.
While Ernst and Tanning are largely responsible for Sedona’s reputation as an artist colony, they relocated to France in the 1950s and remained until Ernst’s death in Paris in 1976.
Find original Max Ernst art on 1stDibs.
- ShippingRetrieving quote...Ships From: Rome, Italy
- Return PolicyA return for this item may be initiated within 14 days of delivery.
- Cirque du Soleil n.8By Sergio BarlettaLocated in Roma, ITHand Signed. Mixed technique and collage on cardboard. Lightly damaged on bottom left sheet. Passepartout included. This artwork is from the series "Cirque du Soleil...Category
1990s Surrealist Mixed Media
MaterialsCardboard, Mixed Media
- Cirque du Soleil n.34 - Original Mixed Media on Paper by Sergio Barletta - 1995By Sergio BarlettaLocated in Roma, ITHand Signed. Mixed technique and collage on cardboard. Passepartout included. This artwork is from the series "Cirque du Soleil" that the Italian artist Sergio Barletta dedicated to ...Category
1990s Surrealist Mixed Media
MaterialsMixed Media, Cardboard
- Cirque du Soleil n.38By Sergio BarlettaLocated in Roma, ITHand Signed. Mixed technique and collage on cardboard. Passepartout included. This artwork is from the series "Cirque du Soleil" that the Italian arti...Category
1990s Surrealist Mixed Media
MaterialsMixed Media, Cardboard
- Cirque du Soleil n.2By Sergio BarlettaLocated in Roma, ITHand Signed. Mixed technique and collage on cardboard. Passepartout included. This artwork is from the series "Cirque du Soleil" that the Italian arti...Category
1990s Surrealist Mixed Media
MaterialsMixed Media, Cardboard
- Cirque du Soleil n.7 - Original Mixed Media by S. Barletta -1995 ca.By Sergio BarlettaLocated in Roma, ITHand Signed. Mixed technique and collage on cardboard. Passepartout included. This artwork is from the series "Cirque du Soleil" that the Italian artist Sergio Barletta dedicated to ...Category
1990s Surrealist Mixed Media
MaterialsMixed Media, Cardboard
- Cirque du Soleil n.17By Sergio BarlettaLocated in Roma, ITHand Signed. Mixed technique and collage on cardboard. Passepartout included. A Clockwork Orange. This artwork is from the series "Cirque du Soleil" t...Category
1990s Surrealist Mixed Media
MaterialsMixed Media, Cardboard
- Linda Stein, 1211 - Contemporary Art 3D Mixed Media Fabric Sculptural CollageLocated in New York, NYLinda Stein, 1211 - Contemporary Art 3D Mixed Media Fabric Sculptural Collage Linda Stein started her Knights of Protection series after she was forced to evacuate her New York down...Category
2010s Contemporary Mixed Media
MaterialsLeather, Fabric, Canvas, Gouache, Board
- Linda Stein, 1210 - Contemporary Art 3D Mixed Media Fabric Sculptural CollageLocated in New York, NYLinda Stein, 1210 - Contemporary Art 3D Mixed Media Fabric Sculptural Collage Linda Stein started her Knights of Protection series after she was forced to evacuate her New York down...Category
2010s Contemporary Mixed Media
MaterialsFabric, Canvas, Gouache, Board, Leather
- "Comb / Window" Contemporary Pastel Abstract Expressionist Sculptural PaintingLocated in Houston, TXExhibited in "Benji Stiles: A Human Day" at Reeves Art + Design. In “A Human Day,” a solo show dedicated to the work of contemporary multidisciplinary artist Benji Stiles, we explor...Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
MaterialsFound Objects, Watercolor, Gouache, Cardboard
- "Halo #6" Contemporary Pastel Abstract Expressionist Sculptural PaintingLocated in Houston, TXExhibited in "Benji Stiles: A Human Day" at Reeves Art + Design. In “A Human Day,” a solo show dedicated to the work of contemporary multidisciplinary artist Benji Stiles, we explor...Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
MaterialsFound Objects, Watercolor, Gouache, Cardboard
- 1967 Pop Art, May Wilson, Surrealist Feminist Junk Assemblage Painted SculptureBy May WilsonLocated in Surfside, FLMay Wilson (1905–1986) was an American artist and figure in the 1960s New York City avant-garde art world. A pioneer of the feminist and mail art movement, she is best known for her Surrealist junk assemblages and her "Ridiculous Portrait" photo collages. Wilson was born in Baltimore, Maryland, into an underprivileged family. Her father died when she was young. She was reared by her Irish Catholic mother, who sewed piecework at home. Wilson left school after the ninth grade to become a stenographer/secretary to help support her family. When she turned 20, she married a young lawyer, William S. Wilson, Jr., and give birth to her first child. She continued to work until the birth of her second child, after which she devoted her energies primarily to mothering and homemaking. In 1942, the couple had prospered enough to move to Towson, Maryland, where she began to take correspondence courses in art and art history from several schools, including the University of Chicago. In 1948, after the marriage of their daughter, the couple moved to a gentleman's farm north of Towson, where she pursued painting and gave private art lessons to neighbors. She exhibited her paintings, scenes of everyday life painted in a flat, purposefully primitive manner in local galleries and restaurants. In 1952 and 1958, she won awards for work submitted to juried exhibitions at the Baltimore Museum of Art. In 1956, her son, the writer Williams S. Wilson, gave to Ray Johnson, the founder of the New York Correspondence School, his mother's address. This began a friendship and artistic collaboration between Johnson and Wilson, which would last the remainder of her life. Wilson became an integral part of Johnson's mail art circle and was initiated into the New York avant-garde through letters and small works that she exchanged with Robert Watts, George Brecht, Ad Reinhardt, Leonard Cohen, Arman, and many others. When her marriage dissolved, she moved to New York City in the spring of 1966, aged 61, taking up residence first in the Chelsea Hotel and then in a studio next door, where she threw legendary soirées and became known as the "Grandma Moses of the Underground". By the time she arrived, Wilson was already working with photomontage collage...Category
1960s Surrealist Abstract Sculptures
MaterialsMetal
- I have been looking for youBy Pedro FriedebergLocated in Ciudad de México, MXIn Pedro's artwork, you will continuously find perspective, this is because the artist studied 3 years of architecture. incomprehensive, magical, and surreal elements will be present...Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Mixed Media
MaterialsInk, Acrylic, Cardboard