Artworks · Max Ernst

Plate from Le Surréalisme en 1947

1947 · Lithograph from an illustrated book with eighteen lithographs, four etchings (two with aquatint), two woodcuts, one photogravure, and one ready-made object

composition (irreg.): 6 15/16 × 6 3/16" (17.7 × 15.7 cm); page: 9 7/16 × 8" (24 × 20.3 cm)

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Variant of plate (page 95) from Mr. Aa the Anti-Philosopher (Monsieur Aa l'antiphilosophe): Volume I from The Anti-Head (L'Antitête)

1947 · Etching, aquatint, and pochoir from an illustrated book with 46 etchings (23 with aquatint, 23 with pochoir, eight with drypoint, and eight with watercolor and ink additions)

plate: 3 7/16 × 2 7/16" (8.7 × 6.2 cm); page: 5 1/2 × 4 5/16" (14 × 11 cm)

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Plate (page 161) from Monsieur Aa l'antiphilosophe: Volume I from L'Antitête

1947 · Etching and aquatint from an illustrated book with 46 etchings (23 with aquatint, 23 with pochoir, eight with drypoint, and eight with watercolor and ink additions)

plate: 3 7/16 × 2 1/2" (8.7 × 6.3 cm); page: 5 1/2 × 4 5/16" (14 × 11 cm)

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Variant of frontispiece from Monsieur Aa l'antiphilosophe: Volume I from L'Antitête

1947 · Etching, aquatint, and pochoir from an illustrated book with 46 etchings (23 with aquatint, 23 with pochoir, eight with drypoint, and eight with watercolor and ink additions)

plate: 3 3/8 × 2 3/8" (8.6 × 6.1 cm); page: 5 1/2 × 4 5/16" (14 × 11 cm)

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Variant of plate (page 137) from Mr. Aa the Anti-Philosopher (Monsieur Aa l'antiphilosophe): Volume I from The Anti-Head (L'Antitête)

1947 · Etching, aquatint, and pochoir from an illustrated book with 46 etchings (23 with aquatint, 23 with pochoir, eight with drypoint, and eight with watercolor and ink additions)

plate: 3 7/16 × 2 7/16" (8.7 × 6.2 cm); page: 5 1/2 × 4 5/16" (14 × 11 cm)

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Monsieur Aa l'antiphilosophe: Volume I from L'Antitête

1947 · Volume I from a three volume illustrated book

page (each approx.): 5 1/2 × 4 5/16" (14 × 11 cm); overall (closed): 6 3/16 × 5 1/8 × 1 5/16" (15.7 × 13 × 3.3 cm)

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Variant of plate (page 29) from Monsieur Aa l'antiphilosophe: Volume I from L'Antitête

1947 · Etching, aquatint, and pochoir from an illustrated book with 46 etchings (23 with aquatint, 23 with pochoir, eight with drypoint, and eight with watercolor and ink additions)

plate: 3 3/8 × 2 1/2" (8.6 × 6.4 cm); page: 5 1/2 × 4 5/16" (14 × 11 cm)

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Plate (page 137) from Monsieur Aa l'antiphilosophe: Volume I from L'Antitête

1947 · Etching and aquatint from an illustrated book with 46 etchings (23 with aquatint, 23 with pochoir, eight with drypoint, and eight with watercolor and ink additions)

plate: 3 7/16 × 2 1/2" (8.7 × 6.4 cm); page: 5 1/2 × 4 5/16" (14 × 11 cm)

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Frontispiece from Monsieur Aa l'antiphilosophe: Volume I from L'Antitête

1947 · Etching and aquatint from an illustrated book with 46 etchings (23 with aquatint, 23 with pochoir, eight with drypoint, and eight with watercolor and ink additions)

plate: 3 7/16 × 2 3/8" (8.7 × 6.1 cm); page: 5 1/2 × 4 5/16" (14 × 10.9 cm)

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Plate (page 29) from Monsieur Aa l'antiphilosophe: Volume I from L'Antitête

1947 · Etching and aquatint from an illustrated book with 46 etchings (23 with aquatint, 23 with pochoir, eight with drypoint, and eight with watercolor and ink additions)

plate: 3 7/16 × 2 1/2" (8.7 × 6.4 cm); page: 5 1/2 × 4 5/16" (14 × 11 cm)

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Plate (page 49) from Monsieur Aa l'antiphilosophe: Volume I from L'Antitête

1947 · Etching and aquatint from an illustrated book with 46 etchings (23 with aquatint, 23 with pochoir, eight with drypoint, and eight with watercolor and ink additions)

plate: 3 7/16 × 2 1/2" (8.7 × 6.4 cm); page: 5 1/2 × 4 5/16" (14 × 11 cm)

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Plate (page 71) from Monsieur Aa l'antiphilosophe: Volume I from L'Antitête

1947 · Etching and aquatint from an illustrated book with 46 etchings (23 with aquatint, 23 with pochoir, eight with drypoint, and eight with watercolor and ink additions)

plate: 3 7/16 × 2 1/2" (8.7 × 6.3 cm); page: 5 1/2 × 4 5/16" (14 × 11 cm)

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Plate (page 95) from Monsieur Aa l'antiphilosophe: Volume I from L'Antitête

1947 · Etching and aquatint from an illustrated book with 46 etchings (23 with aquatint, 23 with pochoir, eight with drypoint, and eight with watercolor and ink additions)

plate: 3 7/16 × 2 7/16" (8.7 × 6.2 cm); page: 5 1/2 × 4 5/16" (14 × 11 cm)

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Variant of plate (page 115) from Monsieur Aa l'antiphilosophe: Volume I from L'Antitête

1947 · Etching, aquatint, and pochoir from an illustrated book with 46 etchings (23 with aquatint, 23 with pochoir, eight with drypoint, and eight with watercolor and ink additions)

plate: 3 7/16 × 2 1/2" (8.7 × 6.3 cm); page: 5 1/2 × 4 5/16" (14 × 11 cm)

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Variant of plate (page 161) from Monsieur Aa l'antiphilosophe: Volume I from L'Antitête

1947 · Etching, aquatint, and pochoir from an illustrated book with 46 etchings (23 with aquatint, 23 with pochoir, eight with drypoint, and eight with watercolor and ink additions)

plate: 3 7/16 × 2 7/16" (8.7 × 6.2 cm); page: 5 1/2 × 4 5/16" (14 × 11 cm)

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Adam and Eve Expelled from the Garden of Eden (Adam et Eve chassés du Paradis)

1946 · Gouache on cardstock

1/2" x 1 3/8" (1.4 x 3.6 cm)

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An Anxious Friend

1944 · Bronze

66.7 × 34.9 × 43.2 cm (26 1/4 × 13 3/4 × 17 in.)

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Summer Night in Arizona

1944 · Oil on canvas

28 × 43.2 cm (11 × 17 in.)

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Moonmad

1944 · Bronze

36 7/8 x 13 7/8 x 13 3/4" (93.7 x 35.3 x 34.9 cm) including bronze base 2 3/4 x 12 1/4 x 10 5/8" (5.9 x 31.0 x 26.8 cm)

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An Anxious Friend (Un ami empressé)

1944 · Bronze

26 3/8 x 14 x 16" (67 x 35.5 x 40.4 cm) including bronze base 2 1/2 x 13 5/8 x 10 3/8" (6.3 x 34.5 x 26.3 cm)

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The King Playing with the Queen (Le roi jouant avec la reine)

1944 · Bronze

38 1/2 x 33 x 20 1/2" (97.8 x 83.8 x 52.1 cm) ; 20 1/2 x 18 1/2" (52.1 x 47 cm) at base

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Untitled (The Bird People)

1942 · Colored crayons on orange wove paper

45.5 × 35.5 cm (17 15/16 × 14 in.)

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Maternity (Study for Surrealism and Painting)

1942 · Pencil and chalk on colored paper

18 7/8 x 12 1/8" (47.9 x 30.8 cm)

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Untitled (The Bird People) from VVV Portfolio

1942 · Crayon on paper from a portfolio of five etchings (one with aquatint), three duplicated drawings (two watercolor on paper and one crayon on paper), one collage, one engraving, and one gelatin silver print

composition: 15 9/16 x 13 1/16" (39.5 x 33.1 cm); sheet: 17 7/8 x 14" (45.4 x 35.5 cm)

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Napoleon in the Wilderness

1941 · Oil on canvas

18 1/4 x 15" (46.3 x 38.1 cm)

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Alice in 1941

1941 · Oil on paper on canvas

15 3/4 x 12 3/4" (40.0 x 32.3 cm)

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Spanish Physician

1940 · Oil on canvas

37.5 × 54 cm (14 3/4 × 21 1/4 in.)

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Untitled (Sketchbook)

1940 · Spiral-bound sketchbook with twelve frottage drawings in conté crayon and front cover with gouache

sketchbook, closed: 7 5/16 × 3 15/16 × 1/4" (18.6 × 10 × 0.6 cm); sheet (each): 7 1/16 × 3 15/16" (18 × 10 cm)

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La dame ovale (The Oval Woman)

1939 · Illustrated book with eight offset lithographs after collages

H.: 20 cm (7 7/8 in.)

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Chanson complète

1939 · Book with four lithographs

book, closed: 10 3/8 × 8 × 1/2" (26.3 × 20.3 × 1.3 cm)

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Plate (folio 18) from La Dame ovale

1939 · Offset lithograph from an illustrated book with eight offset lithographs after collages

composition: 4 15/16 × 3 3/4" (12.6 × 9.5 cm); page: 7 1/2 × 5 1/2" (19 × 14 cm)

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Plate (folio 22) from La Dame ovale

1939 · Offset lithograph from an illustrated book with eight offset lithographs after collages

composition: 4 13/16 × 3 1/16" (12.3 × 7.8 cm); page: 7 3/8 × 5 1/2" (18.8 × 13.9 cm)

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Plate (folio 19) from La Dame ovale

1939 · Offset lithograph from an illustrated book with eight offset lithographs after collages

composition: 5 × 3 9/16" (12.7 × 9.1 cm); page: 7 1/2 × 5 7/16" (19 × 13.8 cm)

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Plate (folio 5) from La Dame ovale

1939 · Offset lithograph from an illustrated book with eight offset lithographs after collages

composition (irreg.): 6 5/8 × 5 1/8" (16.9 × 13 cm); page: 7 1/2 × 5 1/2" (19 × 14 cm)

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Frontispiece (folio 3) from La Dame ovale

1939 · Offset lithograph from an illustrated book with eight offset lithographs after collages

composition (irreg.): 4 1/2 × 2 3/4" (11.5 × 7 cm); page: 7 7/16 × 5 1/2" (18.9 × 13.9 cm)

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Plate (folio 14) from La Dame ovale

1939 · Offset lithograph from an illustrated book with eight offset lithographs after collages

composition: 2 3/4 × 2 3/4" (7 × 7 cm); page: 7 7/16 × 5 7/16" (18.9 × 13.8 cm)

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Plate (folio 10) from La Dame ovale

1939 · Offset lithograph from an illustrated book with eight offset lithographs after collages

composition (irreg.): 4 5/8 × 4 3/8" (11.8 × 11.1 cm); page: 7 1/2 × 5 1/2" (19 × 14 cm)

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Plate (folio 24) from La Dame ovale

1939 · Offset lithograph from an illustrated book with eight offset lithographs after collages

composition: 4 13/16 × 3 11/16" (12.3 × 9.4 cm); page: 7 7/16 × 5 1/2" (18.9 × 13.9 cm)

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La Dame ovale

1939 · Illustrated book with eight offset lithographs after collages

page (each approx.): 7 1/2 × 5 1/2" (19 × 14 cm); overall (closed): 7 1/2 × 5 9/16 × 3/16" (19.1 × 14.1 × 0.5 cm)

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Set Design for Alfred Jarry, Ubu Enchaîné

1937 · Graphite and colored pencil with collage of cut relief-printed papers, on tan wove paper

24.2 × 35.5 cm (9 9/16 × 14 in.)

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Here We Are in France, from Ubu Enchaîné

1937 · Colored pencil, over graphite, with collage of cut relief-printed papers on cream wove paper, laid down on cream wove card

24.2 × 35.4 cm (9 9/16 × 13 15/16 in.)

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Je Sublime

1936 · Illustrated book, 28 pages including four frottage drawings in colored pastel [?] and thirteen poems

book, closed: 7 1/2 × 8 3/4 × 1/2" (19.1 × 22.2 × 1.2 cm)

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Je ne mange pas de ce pain-là (I Don't Eat That Kind of Bread)

1936 · Book with frontispiece etching and letterpress text on colored paper

book (closed): 8 1/16 × 6 1/8 × 9/16" (20.5 × 15.5 × 1.4 cm); page dimensions vary: page (smallest): 5 7/16 × 3 5/8" (13.8 × 9.2 cm); page (largest): 8 1/16 × 6 1/8" (20.5 × 15.5 cm)

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Je ne mange pas de ce pain-là

1936 · Illustrated book with one etching

page (each): dimensions vary; overall (closed): 6 7/16 × 3 7/8 × 9/16" (16.4 × 9.9 × 1.5 cm)

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The Nymph Echo ( La Nymphe Écho)

1936 · Oil on canvas

18 1/4 x 21 3/4" (46.3 x 55.2 cm)

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Frontispiece from Le Château étoilé

1936 · Frottage

composition (irreg.): 6 3/4 x 6 3/4" (17.2 x 17.2 cm); sheet: 13 3/8 x 10 3/16" (34 x 25.9 cm)

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Garden Airplane-Trap

1935 · Oil on linen

58.4 × 73 cm (23 1/2 × 28 3/4 in.)

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Barbarians Marching to the West

1935 · Oil paint, with frottage, wiping, and scraping, on tan wove paper, laid down on cardboard

23 × 31.7 cm (9 1/16 × 12 1/2 in.)

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