Ernst, Max (1891-1976) La Ville entière (The Entire City) 1934 Oil on paper on canvas, 50.2 × 61.3 cm Tate Britain, London A crumbling city looms oppressively below the ring-shaped moon. Ernst made a whole series of such works. The imagery may…
Ernst, Max (1891-1976) Celebes 1921 Oil on canvas, 125.4 × 107.9 cm Tate Britain, London The central rotund shape in this painting derives from a photograph of a Sudanese corn-bin, which Ernst has transformed into a sinister mechanical monster. Ernst often re-used…
Ernst, Max (1891-1976) Les Hommes n’en sauront rien (Men Shall Know Nothing of This) 1923 Oil on canvas, 80.3 × 63.8 cm Tate Britain, London Ernst studied philosophy and psychology in Bonn and was interested in the alternative realities experienced by the…
Ernst, Max (1891-1976) Pietà ou La révolution la nuit (Pietà or Revolution by Night) 1923 Oil on canvas, 116.2 × 88.9 cm Tate Britain, London Ernst was a surrealist artist. Inspired by the psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud’s (1856–1939) theory of the unconscious, surrealism…
Ernst, Max (1891-1976) La Lune en bouteille (Moon in a Bottle) 1955 Oil on canvas, 60 × 81.3 cm Tate Britain, London After an eight-year exile in the USA, where he settled in Arizona, Ernst began to visit Europe in 1949. He…
Ernst, Max (1891-1976) Dadaville c.1924 Painted plaster and cork on canvas, 68 × 56 x 6.3 cm Tate Britain, London After the destruction of the First World War, a group of European artists came together to create a new way of…
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) La Femme au chat (Woman with a Cat) c.1880 Oil on canvas, 92.1 x 73 cm Tate Britain, London This unfinished portrait is of Manet‘s wife. It is one of his later works, painted a few years before his…
Soutine, Chaïm (1893-1943) La Route de la colline, Vence (The Road up the Hill) c.1924 Oil on canvas, 72.4 × 60 cm Tate Britain, London Soutine’s response to the South of France appears to have been intensely physical. In this work, the…
Soutine, Chaïm (1893-1943) Paysage à Céret (Landscape at Céret) c.1920–1921 Oil on canvas, 55.9 × 83.8 cm Tate Britain, London After working for many years in Paris, Soutine produced a series of works in towns in the South of France. The subject…
Soutine, Chaïm (1893-1943) Paysage de Cagnes (Cagnes Landscape with Tree) c.1925–1926 Oil on canvas, 60 × 72.7 cm Tate Britain, London See also: • Cagnes-sur-Mer (France)