Printer: Mourlot
Dimensions: 66 x 45 cm
Condition: Very good
Frame: Silver
Description: This original lithographic poster promoted an exhibition at the Salon de Mai, held at the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris in 1958. The image is Forest at Dawn (La Forêt, à l’aube) by Max Ernst. The Salon de Mai was founded by a group of French artists during 1943 in a café in the Rue Dauphine in Paris during the German Occupation in opposition to Nazi ideology and its condemnation of degenerate art.
Artist: Max Ernst (1891-1976) was a German-born painter and sculptor. He studied philosophy, art history, literature, psychology and psychiatry at the University of Bonn. Visiting asylums, he became fascinated with the artwork of mentally ill patients and was inspired to paint. During the First World War, he was a soldier and emerged deeply traumatised and critical of western culture. He converted to Dada, a nihilistic art movement, and formed a group of Dada artists in Cologne creating startling collages and photomontages. Moving to Paris in 1922, he became one of the originators of surrealism who channelled automatic drawing from his subconscious to create dreamlike images. He began sculpting in 1934. The art collector and gallery owner Peggy Guggenheim acquired some of his pieces which she displayed in her London art gallery. At the outbreak of World War II, he escaped the Gestapo and fled to the United States with Peggy who became his third wife. They divorced after four years. Other friends, Marcel Duchamp and Marc Chagall had also fled from the war to New York City and between them, they inspired the development of abstract expressionism. He married his fourth wife, the American surrealist painter, Dorothea Tanning in 1946 and for a few years settled in Arizona. He returned to France in the 1950s and died in Paris in 1976.
Printer: Mourlot
Dimensions: 66 x 45 cm
Condition: Very good
Frame: Silver
Description: This original lithographic poster promoted an exhibition at the Salon de Mai, held at the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris in 1958. The image is Forest at Dawn (La Forêt, à l’aube) by Max Ernst. The Salon de Mai was founded by a group of French artists during 1943 in a café in the Rue Dauphine in Paris during the German Occupation in opposition to Nazi ideology and its condemnation of degenerate art.
Artist: Max Ernst (1891-1976) was a German-born painter and sculptor. He studied philosophy, art history, literature, psychology and psychiatry at the University of Bonn. Visiting asylums, he became fascinated with the artwork of mentally ill patients and was inspired to paint. During the First World War, he was a soldier and emerged deeply traumatised and critical of western culture. He converted to Dada, a nihilistic art movement, and formed a group of Dada artists in Cologne creating startling collages and photomontages. Moving to Paris in 1922, he became one of the originators of surrealism who channelled automatic drawing from his subconscious to create dreamlike images. He began sculpting in 1934. The art collector and gallery owner Peggy Guggenheim acquired some of his pieces which she displayed in her London art gallery. At the outbreak of World War II, he escaped the Gestapo and fled to the United States with Peggy who became his third wife. They divorced after four years. Other friends, Marcel Duchamp and Marc Chagall had also fled from the war to New York City and between them, they inspired the development of abstract expressionism. He married his fourth wife, the American surrealist painter, Dorothea Tanning in 1946 and for a few years settled in Arizona. He returned to France in the 1950s and died in Paris in 1976.
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