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“Ernst rubbed colour out of the floorboards — oxidised green, ochre, and burnt umber summoned by friction rather than brushwork.”

Max Ernst

Painter · Surrealism · 1891–1976

German Surrealist whose frottage forests and bird-headed figures sit in oxidised green, ochre, and burnt umber.

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“Ernst rubbed colour out of the floorboards — oxidised green, ochre, and burnt umber summoned by friction rather than brushwork.”

German Surrealist whose frottage forests and bird-headed figures sit in oxidised green, ochre, and burnt umber.

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