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Oil on paper. Featuring a wavy river abstract composition. Signed and attr. Max Ernst (German, 1891-1976). 7.5 x 9.4 in. (19 x 24 cm). Surrealism. He worked in a variety of media including film, collage, painting, and frottage—a technique wherein he collected pencil rubbings of different objects surfaces as source material. “Creativity is that marvelous capacity to grasp mutually distinct realities and draw a spark from their juxtaposition,” he once reflected. Born on April 2, 1891 in Bruhl, Germany, Ernst and his friend the artist Jean (Hans) Arp began creating Dadaist works in Cologne during the late 1910s. Moving to Paris in 1922, he entered the milieu of several Surrealist artists, including Paul Eluard and Andre Breton. Motivated by Surrealist doctrine, the artist began making dream-like often disturbing paintings, as evinced in his The Elephant Celebes (1921) and Oedipus Rex (1922). Ernst moved to New York with his wife the famed art collector Peggy Guggenheim in the 1940s. In New York, he made one most acclaimed works Europe After the Rain (1940-1942), a psychological interpretation of war torn Europe. Notably, Ernst left Guggenheim to marry the young artist Dorothea Tanning in 1946. In 1954, he received the Grand Prize for painting at the Venice Biennale, and a major retrospective of his work followed the next year at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. He died on April 1, 1976 in Paris, France. Today, Ernst’s works are held in the collections of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Tate Gallery in London, and the Max Ernst Museum in Bruhl, Germany, among others. PROVENANCE: Southern Ontario estate
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