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Max Ernst: A Retrospective Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, until 10 July
Visiting this large (172 works) retrospective for Max Ernst (1891-1976) at the Metropolitan was in a way a sign of the times. Here was revealed, in all its witty and eccentric glory, the art of the most influential German Dadaist, born in Bruhl, between Bonn and Cologne, son of a disciplinarian Catholic teacher and amateur painter, who went to Paris to join the almost exclusively Francophone Surrealists. While the exhibition was certainly well attended, it was comfortable. For once, at a big Met show, you could move easily, spend time studying a favourite painting and even have...
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