In a rare move, the Menil Collection will offer a Max Ernst sculpture valued between $400,000 and $600,000 at auction. The bronze Jeune homme au coeur battant (Young Man With a Fluttering Heart), was ...

A group of 11 rare and darkly fantastical paintings incorporating birds by Max Ernst are to go on show at Sotheby’s in London–although none are for sale. The works have all been loaned by unnamed ...

I’ve got a confession to make: I have a love/hate relationship going on with Milan’s Palazzo Reale. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t usually have particularly hard feelings or soft spots for any other ...

Surrealism gives art permission. No wild-child artist, for example, is without a debt to its ideas: Tim Hawkinson at the Whitney and Takashi Murakami at the Japan Society are carrying surrealist genes ...

The founder of Cologne’s branch of Dada and an early Surrealist, Ernst started using the phrase “beyond painting” in the early nineteen-twenties. Sometimes he applied it to technical innovations, as ...

Giovanni Guida 'God fights the Coronavirus (And you'll be cured of all diseases.. and I'll take care of you)' (2020) grattage and frottage on graphia Evoking otherworldly drama, God is depicted as a ...

Locating and mapping the human unconscious was a primary plotline within the braided narratives of modernism, and it fell to the Surrealist painters to represent the inchoate structures and ...

Max Ernst (1891-1976) was a German painter, sculptor, graphic artist and poet, known as one of the primary pioneers of the Dada and Surrealist movements. Born on April 2, 1891, in Brühl, Germany, ...