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personGerman, 1891–1976
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Selected Works1110

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Previous Sales 347

Christie's
Le monde est une fable (Le temps est un songe)
Le monde est une fable (Le temps est un songe), 1960
$254,000
May 2026
Christie's
Tortue
Tortue, 1944
$107,950
May 2026
Christie's
Nocturne
Nocturne, 1963
Bought In
May 2026
Sotheby's
Dancers under the starry sky
Dancers under the starry sky, 1951
Unknown
Apr 2026
Sotheby's
Paysage jaune
Paysage jaune
Unknown
Apr 2026
Christie's
(Ville)
(Ville), 1935
€44,450 ($49k USD)
Apr 2026
Sotheby's
Comète
Comète, 1951
Unknown
Apr 2026
Christie's
Vision d'un après-midi d'automne
Vision d'un après-midi d'automne, 1935
€25,400 ($28k USD)
Apr 2026
Christie's
Sedona I
Sedona I, 1951
£177,800 ($235k USD)
Mar 2026
Christie's
Hochzeit von Himmel und Erde - Variation in Blau und Rot
Hochzeit von Himmel und Erde - Variation in Blau und Rot
£127,000 ($168k USD)
Mar 2026
Christie's
Paysage immobile
Paysage immobile
£95,250 ($126k USD)
Mar 2026
Christie's
Êtes-vous Niniche?
Êtes-vous Niniche?, 1955
Bought In
Mar 2026
Sotheby's
Barbares marchant vers l'ouest
Barbares marchant vers l'ouest, 1935
$171,124
Mar 2026
Christie's
Seestück (Seascape)
Seestück (Seascape), 1921
£1,270,000 ($1.7M USD)
Mar 2026
Christie's
Sun over the desert
Sun over the desert, 1925
£863,600 ($1.1M USD)
Mar 2026
Christie's
Le monde des flous - Refus absolu de vivre comme un tachiste
Le monde des flous - Refus absolu de vivre comme un tachiste, 1965
£609,600 ($805k USD)
Mar 2026
Christie's
Ohne Titel
Ohne Titel
£63,500 ($84k USD)
Mar 2026
Sotheby's
Another Beautiful Morning
Another Beautiful Morning
$55,000
Feb 2026
Sotheby's
Lustrée matinale
Lustrée matinale, 1966
€45,000 ($50k USD)
Feb 2026
Sotheby's
Un caprice de volcan
Un caprice de volcan, 1961
Unknown
Dec 2025
Sotheby's
Strollers in the Moonlight
Strollers in the Moonlight, 1959
$66,094
Nov 2025
Sotheby's
Les Asperges de la lune
Les Asperges de la lune, 1935
$3,102,000
Nov 2025
Sotheby's
Les Oiseaux qui ne peuvent pas voler
Les Oiseaux qui ne peuvent pas voler, 1927
$254,000
Nov 2025
Sotheby's
Ohne Titel (Untitled)
Ohne Titel (Untitled)
$31,750
Nov 2025
Sotheby's
“Wunderhorn,” Seite 19 (“Wunderhorn,” Page 19)
“Wunderhorn,” Seite 19 (“Wunderhorn,” Page 19), 1969
$19,050
Nov 2025

Upcoming Auctions 2

Peter Karbstein - Kunst und Auktionshaus
Ernst, Max: Aus Lewis Carrolls ''Wunderhorn''
Ernst, Max: Aus Lewis Carrolls ''Wunderhorn''
Est. €700–€900
Jul 4, 2026
Aguttes
MAX ERNST (1891-1976)
MAX ERNST (1891-1976)
Est. €500–€700
Jun 17, 2026

For Sale 5

Wallector Srl · Artsper
Une Pyramide en Colère
Une Pyramide en Colère
$152,928
Painting
Wallector Srl · Artsper
Un Acteur de Talent - Original Frottage
Un Acteur de Talent - Original Frottage
$40,052
Fine Art Drawings
WD ART GALLERY Modern · Artsper
Sans titre (Un poème dans chaque livre Paul Eluard) Ref BDNW2915
Sans titre (Un poème dans chaque livre Paul Eluard) Ref BDNW2915
$11,530
Print
La Galerie d'Art Moderne à Southampton · 1stDibs
Composition, Feuilles éparses, Max Ernst
Composition, Feuilles éparses, Max Ernst
$12,495
Wallector · 1stDibs
Une Pyramide en Colère, Micro-Painting on Leather by Max Ernst
Une Pyramide en Colère, Micro-Painting on Leather by Max Ernst
$149,897
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Market4,134 auction results

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May 2026 · $46.2K
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Paintings: $142K medianWorks on paper: $15.8K medianSculpture/objects: $127K medianPhotographs: $5.8K medianEditioned prints: $1.4K medianBooks/portfolios: $1.2K medianUnclassified lots: $6.3K medianPosters/ephemera: $1.4K median
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Prizes & Awards1

Goslarer Kaiserring
Winner 1976
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Publications40

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Monograph 5

Max Ernst Author
MoMA Publications · 2009
Max Ernst: Traum und Revolution
Hatje Cantz · 2008
Max Ernst Museum Brühl
Prestel · 2005
Ernst Author
Abrams · 1997
Max Ernst - Frottagen
Hatje Cantz · 1986

Exhibition Catalog 24

Rendezvous der Träume: Surrealismus und deutsche Romantik
Hatje Cantz · 2025
Surrealistische Meisterwerke der / Chefs-d'œuvre surréalistes de la Collection Hersaint
Hatje Cantz · 2025
Im Tempel des Ich. Das Künstlerhaus als Gesamtkunstwerk
Hatje Cantz · 2022
In the Temple of the Self. The Artist's Residence as a Total Work of Art
Hatje Cantz · 2022
Max Ernst Author
Abrams · 2022
For Your Eyes Only: Eine Privatsammlung zwischen Manierismus und Surrealismus
Hatje Cantz · 2014
Entdeckungsfahrten zu Max Ernst Author
Hatje Cantz · 2013
In the Temple of the Self. The Artist's Residence as a Total Work of Art
Hatje Cantz · 2013
Max Ernst Retrospective
Hatje Cantz · 2013
Max Ernst Retrospektive
Hatje Cantz · 2013
Alice im Wunderland der Kunst
Hatje Cantz · 2012
Dark Romanticism: From Goya to Max Ernst
Hatje Cantz · 2012
Kunst zum Hören: Schwarze Romantik
Hatje Cantz · 2012
Schwarze Romantik: Von Goya bis Max Ernst
Hatje Cantz · 2012
Surrealismus in Paris
Hatje Cantz · 2011
Max Ernst Dream and Revolution Author
Hatje Cantz · 2009
Die Skulpturen der Maler: Malerei und Plastik im Dialog
Hatje Cantz · 2008
Les Peintres-Sculpteurs
Hatje Cantz · 2008
Max Ernst: Im Garten der Nymphe Ancolie
Hatje Cantz · 2007
Gärten: Ordnung Inspiration Glück
Hatje Cantz · 2006
Peggy Guggenheim & Frederick Kiesler: The Story of Art of This Century
Hatje Cantz · 2004
Das endlose Rätsel: Dalí und die Magier der Mehrdeutigkeit
Hatje Cantz · 2003
Yves Tanguy und der Surrealismus
Hatje Cantz · 2000
Max Ernst und Bonn Author
MACK Books · 1994

Group Catalog 5

Fondation Beyeler. Die Sammlung
Hatje Cantz · 2026
Fondation Beyeler. La Collection
Hatje Cantz · 2026
La Magie des Arbres
Hatje Cantz · 1998
Magie der Bäume
Hatje Cantz · 1998
The Magic of Trees
Hatje Cantz · 1998

Survey 6

Forbidden Territories: 100 Years of Surreal Landscape
Thames & Hudson · 2024
New Surrealism: The Uncanny in Contemporary Painting
Phaidon Press · 2023
Surrealists in New York: Atelier 17 and the Birth of Abstract Expressionism
Thames & Hudson · 2023
Significant Others: Creativity and Intimate Partnership
Thames & Hudson · 2018
Artists in Love
Rizzoli · 2016
Dada: Art and Anti-Art
Thames & Hudson · 2016
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Upcoming1

Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum

The Freudian Universe of Dalí

Salvador Dalí, Jean Arp, Arnold Böcklin, Sigmund Freud, Max Ernst, Jean-François Millet, Pablo Picasso, Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Julio Romero de Torres, Gino Severini, Yves Tanguy

P.º del Prado, 8, Centro, 28014 Madrid, Spain

Oct 20, 2026 — Jan 24, 2027

The relationship between the work of Salvador Dalí and the writings of Sigmund Freud is one of the key issues that articulate the artist’s visual aesthetic. ...

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A Leonora Carrington Biopic Traces the Surrealist Icon’s Life and Work
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Past Exhibitions14

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#324 Gallery Wendi Norris

Max Ernst at Transamerica Pyramid Center

Max Ernst

436 Jackson St, San Francisco, CA 94111, USA

Jul 17, 2025 — Oct 15, 2025

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Malingue

Max Ernst. La Perfection du Hasard

Max Ernst

26 Av. Matignon, 75008 Paris, France

Oct 11, 2024 — Nov 29, 2024

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Malingue

Max Ernst. The Perfection of Chance

Max Ernst

26 Av. Matignon, 75008 Paris, France

Oct 11, 2024 — Nov 29, 2024

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California Palace of the Legion of Honor

Iliazd: Publishing as an Art Form

Naum Granovsky, Ilia Zdanevich, Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Alberto Giacometti, Max Ernst, Joan Miró

100 34th Ave, San Francisco, CA 94121, USA

Jan 1, 2021

Iliazd: Publishing as an Art Form Jun 12 – Oct 17, 2021 Legion of Honor Exhibition

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#148 Kasmin Gallery

Max Ernst: Collages

Max Ernst

509 West 27th Street

Jan 23, 2020 — Feb 29, 2020

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#1,269 ML Fine Art (Matteo Lampertico)

Max Ernst: An Invitation to Look

Max Ernst

Oct 2, 2019 — Nov 29, 2019

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Beyeler Foundation

Beyeler Collection / Nature + Abstraction

Brice Marden, Max Ernst

Baselstrasse 101, 4125 Riehen, Switzerland

May 20, 2018 — Aug 12, 2018

Brice Marden, Max Ernst — May 20, 2018 – August 12, 2018

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#148 Kasmin Gallery

Max Ernst: BIG BROTHER: TEACHING STAFF FOR A SCHOOL OF MURDERERS

Max Ernst

509 West 27th Street

Mar 30, 2017 — May 13, 2017

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Kunstmuseum Luzern

SONJA SEKULA, MAX ERNST, JACKSON POLLOCK & FRIENDS

Sonja Sekula, Max Ernst, Jackson Pollock

Jan 1, 2016

11.06.25.09.2016 SONJA SEKULA, MAX ERNST, JACKSON POLLOCK & FRIENDS

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#148 Kasmin Gallery

Max Ernst: Paramyths, Sculpture 1934 – 1967

Max Ernst

509 West 27th Street

Oct 22, 2015 — Dec 5, 2015

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#6,122 Galerie Von Vertes

Max Ernst

Max Ernst

Bahnhofstrasse 16, 8001 Zürich, Switzerland

Feb 7, 2011 — Mar 18, 2011

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Malingue

Max Ernst

Max Ernst

26 Av. Matignon, 75008 Paris, France

May 21, 2003 — Jul 18, 2003

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Toledo Museum of Art

Werner Pfeiffer Selects

Werner Pfeiffer, Henri Matisse, Hans Arp, Max Ernst, Lucas Samaras, H.A.P. Grieshaber, Warja Honegger-Lavater

2445 Monroe St, Toledo, OH 43620, USA

May 10, 2015

Werner Pfeiffer, Henri Matisse, Hans Arp, Max Ernst, Lucas Samaras, H.A.P. Grieshaber, Warja Honegger-Lavater — Feb. 13 – May 10, 2015

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Beyeler Foundation

The Key to Dreams

Salvador Dalí, Max Ernst, René Magritte, Joan Miró, Pablo Picasso, Man Ray, Dorothea Tanning

Baselstrasse 101, 4125 Riehen, Switzerland

May 4, 2025

Salvador Dalí, Max Ernst, René Magritte, Joan Miró, Pablo Picasso, Man Ray, Dorothea Tanning — 16.2 – 4.5.2025

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Art Fair Appearances19

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TEFAF Maastricht — Maastricht
2026
TEFAF Maastricht — Maastricht
2025
Art Basel — Basel
2024
TEFAF Maastricht — Maastricht
2024
TEFAF Maastricht — Maastricht
2023
Art Basel — Basel
2022
TEFAF Maastricht — Maastricht
2022
The Armory Show — New York
2022
Art Basel — Basel
2021
artgenève — Geneva
2020
TEFAF Maastricht — Maastricht
2020
The Armory Show — New York
2020
Art Basel — Basel
2019
TEFAF New York — New York
2019
Art Basel — Basel
2018
TEFAF Maastricht — Maastricht
2018
TEFAF Maastricht — Maastricht
2017
The Armory Show — New York
2017
TEFAF Maastricht — Maastricht
2015
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The Freudian Universe of Dalí
Oct 20, 2026
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Nagas: A Charming Art Gallery and Mini Museum Hybrid
May 31, 2026
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Les rêves hallucinés de Brion Gysin au musée d’Art moderne de Paris
May 30, 2026
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May 29, 2026
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May 28, 2026
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Lost Leonora Carrington Painting Emerges After More Than 80 Years
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May 27, 2026
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Marianna Simnett’s Furry Friends
May 26, 2026
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Leonora in the Morning Light review – pioneering British artist who fled convention for the surrealists
May 26, 2026
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At the GAM in Turin, the Fourth Resonance between drawing, paper and twentieth-century collections
May 24, 2026
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17 New Artist Auction Records Set in May 2026
May 22, 2026
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Sotheby’s $304M Modern Evening Auction Confirms the Market Has Found Its Footing
May 20, 2026
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Taipei Fine Arts Museum unveils 'Surrealism: The World in Dialogue'
May 18, 2026
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The Frist Art Museum opens new exhibitions this summer
May 13, 2026
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