Max Ernst - Lot with 3 books - 1966-1975

1. Max Ernst: Life and Work (Abrams)

• Title: Max Ernst: Life and Work
• Author: John Russell
• Publisher: Harry N. Abrams, Inc. Publishers (New York)
• Year of publication: 1967
• Number of pages: 359 pages (richly illustrated with color plates and black-and-white prints)
• Brief description: One of the most authoritative and monumental English-language monographs on the artist. Edited by the renowned art critic John Russell, the work meticulously traces Ernst's life, examining the invention of his revolutionary languages (collage, frottage) and his geographic and existential migrations between Europe and the United States. The hardcover binding features an elegant blue-printed motif.


2. Max Ernst: Oltre la pittura (Palazzo Grassi)

• Title: Max Ernst: Beyond Painting
• Author/Curator: International Center of Arts and Costume
• Publisher: Palazzo Grassi (Venice)
• Year of publication: 1966
• Number of pages: 102 pages (approximately)
• Brief description: A rare official catalog published for the famous exhibition held in Venice at Palazzo Grassi from June 17 to October 2, 1966. The title revisits the painter's fundamental theoretical essay (Au-delà de la peinture) and the volume collects writings, testimonies, and the reproduction of sculptural and pictorial masterpieces shown in that historic lagoon exhibition.


3. Max Ernst: Cage-Bed with Screen

• Title: Max Ernst: Cage-Bed with Screen
• Author/Curator: Art exhibition catalog / Finarte publication
• Publisher: Finarte (Milan)
• Year of publication: 1975 (approx)
• Number of pages: 36 pages (approximately)
• Brief description: A rare square-format monographic catalog printed on the occasion of the presentation and sale of the famous three-dimensional object-work by Max Ernst: the legendary “Cage-Bed with Screen” created in 1974 (a monumental and provocative surrealist habitable structure decorated with lithographs and mirrors). It documents in detail the genesis and visual components of this late and genius invention.