Max Ernst

1891–1976

Dangerous Correspondances 1947
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Artworks

A massive ruined citadel rises in stepped tiers of dark, densely patterned stonework against a teal sky, with a pale ring glowing like an eclipsed moon at upper left and dark vegetation creeping over the lower slopes.

The Entire City

On display at Tate Modern part of In the Studio

Untitled from ‘La Brebis galante’

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Dangerous Correspondances

A pale crescent fringed with splayed bare legs hangs from fine strings in a black sky, above grey cones, a hand clasping a small instrument within a hoop, and fleshy forms on sandy earth

Men Shall Know Nothing of This

A wall of dark, jagged tree forms scraped and combed in browns and black rises against a pale blue sky; a small red bird with a staring white eye perches inside a cage-like hollow near the bottom.

Forest and Dove

Moon in a Bottle

A huge round dark-green mechanical beast like a boiler on stumpy legs, with a curling hose-like trunk, horned bull's head and white bib, stands beneath a grey sky; at right a headless white female torso raises a red-gloved arm

Celebes

On display at Tate Modern part of In the Studio

A moustached man in a brown suit and bowler hat kneels holding a stiff grey stone-like figure in a white gown across his knee, red cloth over its legs, before a brick wall bearing a sketched outline of a bearded man

Pietà or Revolution by Night

On display at Tate Modern part of Media Networks