Max Ernst, Figurale Komposition
Composition of a man with a lance and an abstracted figure reminiscent of a book ...

Max Ernst, Figurale Komposition
Composition of a man with a lance and an abstracted figure reminiscent of a book illustration from around 1500, lithograph on Japanese paper, 1967, signed "Max Ernst" on the lower right and numbered "38/69" on the left, further embossed stamp "Manus Press", framed behind glass (slipped in the frame), sheet dimensions approx. 32.8 x 24.8 cm. Artist's info: actually Maximilian Maria Ernst, Germ. Painter, stage designer, graphic artist, draughtsman, writer and sculptor (1891 Brühl/Rhineland to 1976 Paris), 1910-14 studied philosophy, psychology and art history at Bonn University, 1911 friendship with August Macke, 1912 autodidactic 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 with Johannes Baargeld and Hans Arp founding member of the Cologne Dada group, Member of the artists' association "Das Junge Rheinland", 1922 moved to Paris, joined the Surrealists around André Breton, 1923 represented in the "Salon des Indépendants", 1925 first studio in Paris, 1933-45 defamed as "degenerate" in Germany, from 1939 temporarily interned as a German in France, 1941 flees to the USA with his future wife Peggy Guggenheim, 1946 moves to Sedona in the Arizona desert, 1948 American citizenship, 1953 returns to France, 1954 represented at the Venice Biennale, from 1955 country residence in Huismes, 1958 French citizenship, from 1964 regularly exhibits at the Venice Biennale. From 1964, regular residence in the south of France, source: Vollmer and Wikipedia.