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Max Ernst, "Tout en un plus deux" Strongly abstracted depiction of two birds, see catalogue raisonné Spies/Leppien 210, etching on laid reddish Japan paper, 1971, signed "Max Ernst" in pencil lower right and inscribed "e. a." left, very good condition, slightly soiled and remnants of old mounting on the reverse, image dimensions approx. 41 x 29.1 cm, sheet dimensions approx. 56.5 x 37.2 cm. Artist information: actually Maximilian Maria Ernst, German painter, stage designer, stage designer. German painter, stage designer, graphic artist, draughtsman, writer and sculptor (1891 Brühl/Rhineland to 1976 Paris), 1910-14 studied philosophy, psychology and art history at the University of Bonn, 1911 friendship with August Macke, 1912 self-taught turn to painting, 1913 first participation in the exhibition of the Rhenish Expressionists in Bonn and in the "First German Autumn Salon" in Herwarth Walden's Berlin gallery "Der Sturm", 1919 founding member of the Cologne Dada group with Johannes Baargeld and Hans Arp, Member of the artists' association "Das Junge Rheinland", moved to Paris in 1922, joined the Surrealists around André Breton, represented in the "Salon des Indépendants" in 1923, first studio in Paris in 1925, defamed as "degenerate" in Germany from 1933-45, temporarily interned as a German in France from 1939, 1941 fled to the USA with his future wife Peggy Guggenheim, 1946 moved to Sedona in the Arizona desert, 1948 American citizenship, 1953 returned to France, 1954 represented at the Venice Biennale, from 1955 country residence in Huismes, 1958 French citizenship, from 1964 regularly exhibited in France. Citizenship, from 1964 regular residence in the south of France, source: Vollmer and Wikipedia.

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Max Ernst, "Tout en un plus deux" Strongly abstracted depiction of two birds, see catalogue raisonné Spies/Leppien 210, etching on laid reddish Japan paper, 1971, signed "Max Ernst" in pencil lower right and inscribed "e. a." left, very good condition, slightly soiled and remnants of old mounting on the reverse, image dimensions approx. 41 x 29.1 cm, sheet dimensions approx. 56.5 x 37.2 cm. Artist information: actually Maximilian Maria Ernst, German painter, stage designer, stage designer. German painter, stage designer, graphic artist, draughtsman, writer and sculptor (1891 Brühl/Rhineland to 1976 Paris), 1910-14 studied philosophy, psychology and art history at the University of Bonn, 1911 friendship with August Macke, 1912 self-taught turn to painting, 1913 first participation in the exhibition of the Rhenish Expressionists in Bonn and in the "First German Autumn Salon" in Herwarth Walden's Berlin gallery "Der Sturm", 1919 founding member of the Cologne Dada group with Johannes Baargeld and Hans Arp, Member of the artists' association "Das Junge Rheinland", moved to Paris in 1922, joined the Surrealists around André Breton, represented in the "Salon des Indépendants" in 1923, first studio in Paris in 1925, defamed as "degenerate" in Germany from 1933-45, temporarily interned as a German in France from 1939, 1941 fled to the USA with his future wife Peggy Guggenheim, 1946 moved to Sedona in the Arizona desert, 1948 American citizenship, 1953 returned to France, 1954 represented at the Venice Biennale, from 1955 country residence in Huismes, 1958 French citizenship, from 1964 regularly exhibited in France. Citizenship, from 1964 regular residence in the south of France, source: Vollmer and Wikipedia.

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