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I was no longer able to feel at ease in the somewhat puritanical and disembodied intellectualism of the more orthodox Surrealists. I feel, at heart, a far greater affinity with the German Romantics than many of the French Surrealists...
| | - Max Ernst, 1962, quoted by Edouard Roditi |
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Original works by Max Ernst available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries:
 Art Institute of Chicago
Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery, UK
Hommage à Rimbaud, aquatint, 1960-61
Max Ernst at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
4 works by Max Ernst
Guggenheim Museum, New York City
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
6 works online
Max Ernst Museum, Bruehl, Germany
Max Ernst at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Max Ernst: A Retrospective
Metropolitan Museum of Art Timetable of Art History
The Barbarians, 1937
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
22 works by Max Ernst online
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh
3 works online
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Missouri
Capricorn, 1948 (Zoom)
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice
3 works online
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice
5 works online
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice
The Kiss, 1927
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice
Zoomorphic Couple, 1933
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Art Collection of the Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango, Colombia
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
GAM - Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin
Un peu malade de cheval
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Indiana State University Art Collection NEW!
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art, Japan (in Japanese) 
Kunsthalle Mannheim, Germany (in German)
Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland
Alphabetically under "E"
Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf, Germany
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
L'oeil du silence (The Eye of Silence), 1943-44
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota
MUMOK - Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna
(You need to click the "right" arrow thirteen times)
Musée Cantini, Marseilles, France (in French) NEW!
Monument aux oiseaux
Museo Ca' Pesaro, Venice (in Italian)
The Weatherman, 1951
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
Le couple, 1923
Museum Jean Tinguely, Switzerland
Info about a 2007-08 exhibition: "Max Ernst: In the Garden of Nymph Ancolie"
Museum of Modern Art, New York City - Provenance Research Project
21 works by Ernst
Muzeum Sztuki, Lodz, Poland
Sun and Forest, 1928
Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, Texas
National Gallery of Victoria, Australia
National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo
Petrified Forest, 1927
National Museums and Galleries of Wales
New York Public Library Digital Gallery
Untitled etching and aquatint
Norwich Museums, England
Philadelphia Museum of Art
(Tip: On the zoom-in page, use the slider bar to magnify the image)
5 works by Max Ernst online
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey NEW!
Reina Sofía National Museum, Madrid NEW! (in Spanish)
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium Catalogue (in French)
3 works online
Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri
Long Live Love or Pays charmant, 1923
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart (in German)
St. Cecilia - The Invisible Piano
Tate Gallery, London, UK
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid NEW!
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Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Connecticut
Europe after the Rain
Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne, Germany (mostly in German)
Wichita Art Museum, Kansas NEW!
4 works online
Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisberg, Germany
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Flemish Art Collection Database, Belgium (in Dutch)
Smithsonian Institution Art Inventories
List of works nationwide from two sources: the Inventory of American Paintings Executed before 1914 and the Inventory of American Sculpture (only a few percent of listings have an accompanying image)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Max Ernst in the Art Renewal Center
Artcyclopedia
Masterscan feature: The Hat Makes the Man
Max Ernst at CGFA
World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)
(a welcome screen is displayed for a couple of seconds before the search results appear)
Boston College Fine Arts Department
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)
Mary Ann Sullivan's Digital Imaging Project
Capricorn
Mary Ann Sullivan's Digital Imaging Project
Under the Bridge of Paris
Mondo Mostre, Milan (in Italian)
Scroll down for a work from the 2005 exhibition Masterpieces from the Guggenheim
Nicola Randone's Grandi Artisti
Quite a few works online
Olga's Gallery
University of Michigan SILS Art Image Browser
USC Annenberg School for Communication
Miscellaneous Sites:
Artarchiv Sample Artist Signatures
Scroll down to signature 76
ArtDaily - Exhibition Photo Galleries
Max Ernst Museum Brühl (6 works online)
Peter Nahum At The Leicester Galleries, London, UK
Archive of past displayed works which are "sold" or "not for sale"
s u r r e a l i s t . c o m
The hat makes the man
The Art of Roberto Matta
For the Max Ernst gallery, scroll down towards the bottom of the "Galleries" frame
The Fine Arts Conservancy, Florida
Interesting before-and-after examples of artwork restorations
Experiment in Faces, concrete
The Legacy Project
"A gathering place for people interested in the enduring legacies of the many violent traumas of the 20th century"
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Max Ernst 
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 75-word preview only. Troubleshooting
Grove Dictionary of Art Online (excerpt)
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Biographical info
Deutsche Bank Artmag
Oxford Dictionary of Art (eNotes) NEW!
The Guardian Newspaper, UK
Essay on Pieta or Revolution by Night, 1923
The New York Observer
Article by Hilton Kramer: Painter Max Ernst Brought Dark Grasp To European Terror
Time Magazine
"The Rebel Dreams of Oedipus Max", 1991 article by Robert Hughes
Time Magazine
"Max Ernst: The Compleat Experimenter", 1976 article by Robert Hughes
Wikiquote, compendium of quotations from the Wikimedia Foundation
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