max ernst's stones

Max Ernst

1937

Painted and carved stone sculptures 

from native rocks.

Maloja, Switzerland

1937

Max Ernst

"Untitled"

Painted and carved stone sculptures

1935

Max Ernst

"Untitled"

Painted stone sculpture

1935

Max Ernst

"Untitled"

Painted stone sculpture

1935

Max Ernst

"Untitled"

Painted and carved stone sculpture

1935

Max Ernst

"Untitled"

Painted and carved stone sculpture

1935

Max Ernst

"Untitled"

Painted and carved stone sculptures

1935

Max Ernst

"Untitled"

Carved stone sculpture

1935

Max Ernst

"Untitled"

Carved stone sculptures

1935

Max Ernst

"Untitled"

Stone sculpture

1935

Max Ernst

"Untitled"

Stone sculpture

1935

Max Ernst

"Untitled"

Stone sculpture

1935

Max Ernst

"Teté d'oiseau mordant une Pierre"

Stone sculpture

1935

Max Ernst

"Untitled"

painted stone sculptures

1935

Roland Penrose

"Rose de sable"

1929

Roland found this stone 

in the desert and offered it to

Max Ernst in

1929.

This stone inspired all the later sculptures

if my terrible French is correct...

Nice presentation Roland!

I wish my friends gave me gifts like this....

All photos from this

amazing book:

"Max Ernst: sculptures, maisons, paysages"

More tomorrow....

a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away....

I was in my

"office"

looking at old

Modernism catalogs

and came across this ad

I designed for Richard Wright

in 1991.

Yes, 1991. I was a baby....

Anyway, it brought back a lot of memories.

some good, some not so good,

but it definitely reminded me of a simpler

time. Not one I wish to go back to,

but one that is gone forever,

fondly remembered,

yet quickly forgotten.

Slip the catalog back on the shelf,

and it is gone....