Picture "Oiseau en péril" (1975) New
Picture "Oiseau en péril" (1975) New
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limited, 130 copies in total | numbered | signed | aquatint etching and collage on Japanese paper | framed | size 65 x 57,5 cm
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Picture "Oiseau en péril" (1975)
The etching presented here from the work cycle "Oiseaux en péril" (Birds in Peril) was created together with the artist and wife of Ernst, Dorothea Tanning. The portfolio comprises eight aquatint etchings, depicting endangered birds and was intended to illustrate a collection of poems by his wife. The surrealist artist reduces the birds to their essentials: Using sweeping lines, he draws their beaks, eyes and wings; the lines appear light and uninhibited.
Aquatint etching and collage, 1975. 100 copies marked with Arabic numerals + 30 copies numbered in Roman numerals (offered here) on Japanese paper, numbered and signed. Motif size 30.5 x 25.5 cm. Sheet size 54.5 x 42 cm. Size in frame 65 x 57.5 cm as shown.
About Max Ernst
1891-1976
Max Ernst was one of the initiators of the Surrealist movement and also remained one of its most important and versatile representatives. Alongside Picasso, he is considered the artist who had the most lasting influence on the development of modernism.
At the sight of a heavily grained, washed-out floor, he had his first spontaneous visions of birds, landscapes, masks, and figures. Max Ernst fixed these visions in his paintings. He created bird people and mask wearers, rational worlds of form that placed him in the ranks of the great Surrealists.
His paintings - if still available at all - are auctioned at Christie's and Sotheby's for millions and are in the most important collections in the world.
The field of graphic arts, that includes artistic representations, which are reproduced by various printing techniques.
Printmaking techniques include woodcuts, copperplate engraving, etching, lithography, serigraphy.