To 1/10: 'Face to Face' photo exhibit Oct 20, 2009
Some of the images are meant to be completely objective, like the oddly uninflected studio portraits of Michael Disfarmer; others are meant to be read symbolically, like Frederick Sommer's double-exposure portrait of artist Max Ernst, a picture that intends to be as surreal as the artist's own work. More obviously, some of the portraits in the show are of anonymous subjects, while others are clearly celebrities. (AZCentral -- Entertainment)
Charles Seliger, 83; painted jewels of imaginary nature Oct 10, 2009
In 1943, he met Jimmy Ernst, the son of the Surrealist artist Max Ernst, and through him began meeting and showing with the dominant figures of the Abstract Expressionist movement at the 67 Gallery and later at Peggy Guggenheim s Art of This Century Gallery, which gave him his first one-man show in 1945, when he was still in his teens. His painting Cerebral Landscape was included in an influential traveling exhibition of Abstract Expressionists that originated at the David Porter Gallery in... (Boston Globe)
Art.view: Hard times Jun 16, 2009
She identifies Max Ernst, Alexander Calder, Joan Miro and Pablo Picasso's later works as being under-priced. But in Picasso's case this is a relative judgement. (The Economist)
NYC spring art auctions will be smaller Apr 28, 2009
Both houses are offering exceptional works by Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti, Max Ernst, Piet Mondrian and David Hockney, but there are fewer star quality works because "sellers are reluctant to sell to this market because they don't think they will get the best price," Nash said ... Among several works never seen at auction is "A Curse on You Mothers," a massive Max Ernst oil of birdlike human forms. (AZCentral -- Business)
Art, Genius and Madness Exhibit in ... Apr 12, 2009
L ermaphrodite, by Max Ernst, 1934. Il Trionfo della morte, by Renato Guttuso, 1943. (Suite101.com)
The European Fine Art Fair kicks off in a blaze of discoveries Mar 14, 2009
Max Ernst's "Landscape with Seashells" (1927-28) ... The soaring fortunes of Surrealism over the last decade have not left many major paintings by leading artists of the movement lying undetected in dark corners Max Ernst least of all after the remarkable retrospective of the artist's oeuvre held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2005 (IHT, April 16, 2005). (International Herald Tribune)
Boston's wild Harry Crosby left a gilded legacy of Black Sun books Feb 22, 2009
Black Sun published James Joyce, Ezra Pound, D.H. Lawrence, Hart Crane, Archibald MacLeish, Kay Boyle, and Max Ernst, among many. T. S. Eliot wrote an introduction to one book, Lawrence another. (Boston Globe)
