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Max Ernst - Sanctuary
Max Ernst and Dorothea Tanning in Sedona, Arizona
The Robing of the Bride. The title of one of Max Ernst’s most mysterious paintings | J.G. Ballard
The Robing of the Bride. The title of one of Max Ernst’s most mysterious paintings | J.G. Ballard
The Robing of the Bride.
The title of one of Max Ernst’s most mysterious paintings. An unseen woman is being prepared by two attendants for her marriage, and is dressed in an immense gown of red plumage that transforms her into a beautiful and threatening bird. Behind her, as if in a mirror, is a fossilized version of herself, fashioned from archaic red coral. All my respect and admiration of…
Else Thoresen (May 1, 1906 - 1994) was a Norwegian-American artist, who studied in Oslo at the Academy and in Brussels. While in Norway she met Danish artist Vilhelm Bjerke-Petersen and married him in 1935. As a result she lived and worked in Denmark for a decade, until she had to flee the Nazi occupation in 1944 and go to Sweden. After the war, she returned to the US and remained there.
The Danish National Gallery has one of her symbolic, Surrealist canvases:
Brændende Jord / Terre brûlée, 1946 - oil on panel (SMK)