Max Ernst

German | 1891 - 1976

Max Ernst was a German Impressionist & Modern artist who was born in 1891. His work is currently being shown at multiple venues like Fondation Beyeler, Basel. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Centre Pompidou Paris have featured Max Ernst's work in the past.Max Ernst's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 2 USD to 24,435,000 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 1998 the record price for this artist at auction is 24,435,000 USD for Le roi jouant avec la reine, sold at Christie's New York in 2022. In the past 12 months, his paintings have averaged 265,198 USD, while his sculptures have sold for an average of 186,886 USD.Max Ernst has been featured in articles for , and . The most recent article is written for ArtDaily in April 2025. The artist died in 1976.

Artist's alternative names: Maximilian Ernst, Maximilian Maria Ernst

Featured for Sale

Die Bedeutung des Sch枚nen in der Naturwissenschaft

Die Bedeutung des Schönen in der Naturwissenschaft

By Max Ernst

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Poissons , 1967 ,1967

By Max Ernst

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Notable Lots

Cage, forêt et soleil noir ,1927

By Max Ernst

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LE ROI JOUANT AVEC LA REINE

By Max Ernst

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La Horde ,1927

By Max Ernst

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Der böse Flügellöwe im Spiegel - Max Ernst

Der böse Flügellöwe im Spiegel ,1960

By Max Ernst

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Die Alexanderschlacht ,1966

By Max Ernst

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Altes Semester ,1912

By Max Ernst

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Untitled ,1970

By Max Ernst

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Untitled ,1970

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Relief I ,1970

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Current Exhibitions

Surrealism: From the MMofA & MOMA Collections

Mobile Museum of Art

Mobile | Alabama | USA

Oct 12,2024 - May 03,2025

The Key to Dreams. Surrealist Masterpieces from the Hersaint Collection

Fondation Beyeler, Basel

Basel | Switzerland

Feb 16,2025 - May 04,2025

Max Ernst: Surrealism, Art, and Cinema

Circulo de Bellas Artes

Madrid | Spain

Dec 05,2024 - May 04,2025

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Articles

Observer 14/04/2025

A landmark auction in Paris celebrated Brazil鈥檚 modern art champion and fearless voice for cultural freedom.

ArtDaily 04/04/2025

The Reba W. & Dave H. Williams Collection of Color Woodcuts at Swann April 15.

WHITEWALL 21/03/2025

The London-based art advisor takes Whitewall on a tour through her TEFAF Maastricht favorites, immersing us in 7000 years of art history.

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鈥� ..Ernst is known for the inspired development of frottage and decalcomania, process-based methods of artistic production that served to unlock the powers of the imagination... 鈥�
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Paul Kasmin Gallery, 515 West 27th Street

鈥� ..Characterized by its personal, domestic and intimate character, this body of works aptly elucidates Ernst鈥檚 belief that the artist should be a diver in subterranean depths, probing the mysteries of the... 鈥�
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M&L Fine Art

鈥� ..Max Ernst鈥檚 collages for Une semaine de bonte (A Week of Kindness) are among the best-kept secrets of 20th century art... 鈥�
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Albertina Museum

鈥� ..Ernst would often accumulate and recombine these ordinary shapes, initially cast in plaster, to create anthropomorphic sculptures of rare poetry, humor, and symbolic power... 鈥�
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Paul Kasmin Gallery, 515 West 27th Street

鈥� ..Ernst assigns new identities to these seemingly mundane, utilitarian forms by configuring them into constructions that embody a new language of modern sculpture... 鈥�
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Paul Kasmin Gallery, 515 West 27th Street