Max Agostini (1914-1997)

An artist (Max Ernst), a gallerist (Henri Creuzevault) and an encounter: although there was nothing surrealistic about it, the result beckons us to look beyond what we see.

The 130 artworks by Max Ernst that make up the French exhibition at the Hotel de Caumont vibrate with passion and ideas which the artist nurtured throughout his life.

The Self-Portrait Yellow-Pink of 1943 by the expressionist painter sold for €20.7 million last Thursday at Grisebach in Berlin. It is the highest price struck at auction in Germany, the previous record was also held by a Max Beckmann painting, The Egyptian had sold in 2018 for €4.7M.

German Surrealist and Dadaist painter Max Ernst widened the scope of artistic expression with dreamlike collages marked by the Freudian subconscious.

The gallery recently opened its first American branch in Marfa, Texas. This is Max Hetzler's fourth space, in addition to those in Berlin, Paris and London. The inaugural exhibition features works by Albert Oehlen; a permanent installation by Darren Almond, Inflection Point, will be situated at the entrance.

After his Self Portrait in Yellow and Pink (1937) achieved €23.2 M on December 1 with Grisebach in Berlin, Artprice took a look at Max Beckmann's market value, particularly in Germany.

Peter Max, the artist whose work came to define the psychedelic aesthetic of the seventies, has been suffering from advanced dementia linked to Alzheimer's since at least 2019. Guardianship was placed with Barbara Lissner, however, Max’s children are attempting to wrestle control in a number of lawsuits.

The British-Pakistani artist’s first solo-show in Germany is a multi-sensory presentation, with the central installation, his multi-layered cycle of works The Wave Epoch, consisting of video, music and performance and complemented by self-powering wall works made of solar panels. It's on show until June 2. (artdaily)

The German gallery Max Hetzler is opening a fourth location in Berlin this Saturday, in the space previously occupied by Blain Southern, which closed in 2019 due to bankruptcy. The inaugural show will be an exhibition of the German Expressionist André Butzer’s work.

These two influential painters could not be linked without sparks flying: with his Projet pour un monument à Leonardo da Vinci, an oil painting executed in 1957 in Touraine, Max Ernst achieved €833,000 today at Drouot under Aguttes’ hammer.