MAX ERNST (Brühl, Germany,1891 - Paris, France... Lot n° 23

MAX ERNST (Brühl, Germany,1891 - Paris, France 1976). Untitled. Lithograph, 76/80. Hand signed and justified by the author. Signed, dated and titled in the lower right corner. Label on the back of the Galerie René Métras. Measurements: 47 x 35 cm; 68 x 55 cm (frame). German artist nationalized French considered fundamental figure as much in the Dada movement as in the surrealism. Throughout his varied artistic career, Ernst was characterized by being a tireless experimenter, using an extraordinary diversity of techniques, styles and materials. In all his works he sought the ideal means to express, in two or three dimensions, the extra-dimensional world of dreams and imagination. In 1909 he entered the University of Bonn where he studied philosophy, art history, literature and psychiatry. From this period date his first works, whose expressionist affiliation reveals the imprint of his friendship with August Macke. In 1922 he moved to Paris, where he began to paint surrealist works in which solemn human figures and fantastic creatures inhabit Renaissance spaces executed with detailed precision (L'eléphant célèbes, 1921, Tate Gallery, London). In 1925 he invented frottage, later he experimented with grattage. In 1930, he debuted as an actor in the cinema with The Golden Age (L' Age d' Or), the second surrealist film by Spanish director Luis Buñuel. His work would have a great influence on a multitude of artists.