Though the Surrealists were completely devoted to Freud, he thought of them as “cranks.” Here, in Max Ernst's re-rendering of the Pietà, the artist is cradled in the arms of a man who resembles his father.
 
Max Ernst, Pietà or Revolution by Night, 1923. Tate. Purchased 1981
© ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2001. 

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