“There’s an amusement to all of them,” says Paul Kasmin of the charmingly elegant and quirky works in his eponymous gallery’s current exhibition, “Max Ernst Paramyths: Sculpture, 1934–1967. He says ...

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 ...

The total value of an artist’s artworks sold at auction over a specific period. This metric reflects the artist’s overall market activity and demand in monetary terms. The middle value of all realized ...

From this hallucinatory landscape in glowing orange hues, it is easy to see why the Surrealist artists Max Ernst and Dorothea Tanning settled in Sedona, Arizona, in 1946, having happened upon the then ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...