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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...
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Max Ernst Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
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Original works by Max Ernst available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery, UK
Hommage à Rimbaud, aquatint, 1960-61
Max Ernst at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
Moonmad, 1944
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW!
Many works online
Guggenheim Museum, New York City
Click "View all" to see a total of 7 works online
Max Ernst Museum, Bruehl, Germany
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW!
Metropolitan Museum of Art Timetable of Art History
The Barbarians, 1937
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Includes biographical information about the artist
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh NEW!
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW!
Most but not all artists in the NGA database have works online
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Missouri
Capricorn, 1948 (Zoom)
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice NEW!
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Tate Gallery, London, UK
Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales, Cardiff
Art Collection of the Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango, Colombia
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Bruce Museum of Arts and Science, Connecticut
Caixa Galicia Foundation, Vigo, Spain (in Spanish) 
(Works are shown at the right, under "Obras")
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
GAM - Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin
Un peu malade de cheval
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. NEW!
Indiana State University Art Collection
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art, Japan (in Japanese)
Kunsthalle Mannheim, Germany (in German)
Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland
Alphabetically under "E"
Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany
5 works online
Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf, Germany
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
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)
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 Museum of Western Art, Tokyo
Petrified Forest, 1927
Norwich Museums, England
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey
Reina Sofía National Museum, Madrid (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
San Diego Museum of Art, California NEW!
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart (in German)
St. Cecilia - The Invisible Piano
State Museums of Berlin
State Museums of Berlin
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel
The Oval Lady by Leonora Carrington, 1939 (keep clicking "Next" to see it)
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel
The Bewildered Planet, 1942
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
(Images are zoomable; click on the "expand" icon below the detail image)
University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Connecticut
Europe after the Rain
Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne, Germany (mostly in German)
Wichita Art Museum, Kansas
4 works online
Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisberg, Germany
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Flemish Art Collection Database, Belgium (in Dutch)
Smithsonian American Art Museum National 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)
Art Market:
(e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Art Signature Dictionary NEW!
Christie's Past Sale Archive
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Max Ernst at The Art Renewal Center
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
Max Ernst at CGFA
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
New York Public Library Digital Gallery
Nicola Randone's Grandi Artisti
Quite a few works online
Olga's Gallery
USC Annenberg School for Communication
Additional Image Search Tools:
(SafeSearch set to "strict"; go to Advanced Search (Flickr/Google) or Preferences (Bing) to change)
Miscellaneous Sites:
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 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting
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
The Art Story
The Guardian Newspaper, UK
Essay on Pieta or Revolution by Night, 1923
The New York Observer
"Painter Max Ernst Brought Dark Grasp To European Terror", article by Hilton Kramer
Wikiquote, compendium of quotations from the Wikimedia Foundation
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