The Wood (Max Ernst)

The Wood (Max Ernst)

Infobox Painting|

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painting_alignment=right
image_size=300px
title=The Wood
artist=Max Ernst
year=1927
type=Oil on canvas
height=60.5
width=81.5
height_inch=23.82
width_inch =32.09
diameter_cm =
diameter_inch =
city=Cardiff
museum=National Museum Cardiff

"The Wood" (1927) is a painting by the German surrealist Max Ernst.

Ernst was haunted by the atmosphere of forests and by the birds which inhabit them. Here, the herring-bone effect of the trees and the grainy sky reveal his technique of grattage. Layers of paint were applied to the canvas, which was pressed against a sheet of stamped metal and a rough plank and scraped. This work was given to the Contemporary Art Society by Miss A.F. Brown in 1940. It is currently on display in the National Museum of Wales.

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* [http://www.museumwales.ac.uk/en/art/online/?action=show_item&item=542 National Museum of Wales]


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