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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