Tag: Ernst

La Toilette de la mariée (1940)

Ernst, Max (1891-1976) La Toilette de la mariée (Attirement of the Bride) 1940 Oil on canvas, 129.6 x 96.3 cm Guggenheim Museum, New York © 2023 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris Attirement of the Bride is an example of Max Ernst’s veristic…

The Antipope (1941-1942)

Ernst, Max (1891-1976) The Antipope 1941–1942 Oil on canvas, 160.8 x 127.1 cm Guggenheim Museum, New York © 2023 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris Max Ernst settled in New York in 1941 after escaping from Europe with the help of…

Two figures without gender. Chimeras (1933)

Ernst, Max (1891-1976) Two figures without gender. Chimeras 1933 Oil on canvas, 65 x 54 cm Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen Two figures without gender. Chimeras are a complex motif on several levels. The chimera already turns out to be a complex…

Fleur coquillage (1927)

Ernst, Max (1891-1976) Fleur coquillage (Flower-Shell) 1927 Oil on canvas, 19 x 24 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid ©VEGAP, Madrid The present Flower-Shell belongs to a set of canvases on the same theme executed between 1927 and 1929, when Max Ernst was…

Le Déjeuner sur l’Herbre (1944)

Ernst, Max (1891-1976) Le Déjeuner sur l’Herbre (Lunch on the Grass) 1944 Oil on canvas, 68 x 150 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Scientific analysis of this painting shows that the black background was added last. A frightening fish isn’t…

Sigmund Freud

(1856–1939) Sigismund Schlomo Freud Works: • A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis (English) • Das Unheimliche (German) • Der Moses des Michelangelo (German) • Die Traumdeutung (German) • Group Psychology and The Analysis of The Ego (English) • Leonardo da Vinci…

The Witch (1941)

Ernst, Max (1891-1976) The Witch 1941 Oil on canvas, 24.5 × 19 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton Like many avant-garde European artists of his generation, Ernst was influenced by Sigmund Freud’s writings on the unconscious, the irrational, and the uncanny.…

Dada Gauguin (1920)

Ernst, Max (1891-1976) Dada Gauguin 1920 Gouache and ink on printed paper, 30.3 × 40 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris See also: • Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903)

Forêt et soleil (1927)

Ernst, Max (1891-1976) Forêt et soleil (Forest and Sun) 1927 Oil on canvas, 66 × 82.5 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris Among his many recollections of childhood, Max Ernst…

Hommage à Rimbaud (1961)

Ernst, Max (1891-1976) Hommage à Rimbaud (Homage to Rimbaud) 1961 Etching and aquatint in blue-gray and pale pink National Gallery of Art, Washington See also: • Rimbaud, Arthur (1854-1891)