Max Ernst
Né à Brühl le 2 avril 1891, Max Ernst traverse le dadaïsme avant de devenir l'un des piliers du surréalisme parisien, inventant au fil des décennies le frottage, le grattage et le collage comme techniques plastiques autonomes — dont Une semaine de bonté (1934) constitue le sommet. Contraint à l'exil aux États-Unis pendant la guerre, il revient s'installer en France où il meurt à Paris le 1er avril 1976.
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Max Ernst
Une semaine de bonté ou les sept éléments capitaux
Paris, Éditions Jeanne Bucher, 1934.Of all the techniques Max Ernst employed, collage is arguably the one owing as much to Dada as to Surrealism. Rather than venture uncertain hypotheses about the meaning the author intended for these “elements” and their “examples” — in what is probably the most protean work of Surrealism — one should simply surrender to the…Sold
Max Ernst
Sept Microbes vus à travers un tempérament
Paris, Les Editions Cercle des Arts, (June 30) 1953.Max Ernst was living in Paris when the Éditions des Cahiers du Cercle d'Art published the brief texts of Sept microbes, illustrated by the author himself. He was working in an studio on the impasse Ronsin rented from the painter William Copley, across from Brancusi's studio, at a time when Brancusi was close to death.Christie's,…Sold
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