Max Ernst (1891-1976) - Scarabée

Max Ernst (1891-1976) Scarab, 1973 Lithograph on Arches paper Signed in the stone; no handwritten signature Dimensions: Sheet: 32.5 × 24 cm (12.8 × 9.4 in.) Image: 21 × 14 cm (8.3 × 5.5 in.) Condition: very good; good margins. Not framed. Note: Spies/Leppien 247A. Description: late lithograph characteristic of Max Ernst, Scarab concentrates in a single insect the artist's fascination with the natural world and its hidden mythologies. The scarab, emblem of metamorphosis and solar renaissance since antiquity, belongs to the surrealist bestiary that Ernst explored since the Frottages of the "Natural History" (1926). Printed three years before his death.

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