By John Russell A few weeks ago, Max Ernst was having oysters and a glass of wine at Sel Rrose on the Lower East Side. He’d just driven into the city from Maryland with his band Shaed — which ...

Tanning soon moved to New York City and eventually settled into commercial ... art patron Peggy Guggenheim sent her then-husband, Max Ernst, to Tanning’s studio to choose a painting for ...

Marcel Duchamp and Max Ernst with the painting “Nude at the Window” (1941) by the self-taught painter Morris Hirshfield in New York City, 1942.Credit...bpk Bildagentur/Münchner Stadtmuseum ...

MAX Ernst's life spanned seven decades of dramatic political and social tumult, and artistic revolution, too. Born near Cologne in 1891, Ernst served in the German trenches of World War I and ...

In the mid-1920s, German artist Max Ernst spent a lot of time staring at the floorboards of his Montmartre studio. The grains, deep and irregular from years of scrubbing, fixated him and so ...