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...20th Century, Max Ernst (see col. 3) renounced the pleasures of painting the sunlit world he saw around him. By concentrating on the feathered, taloned, sharp-toothed horrors visible to his inner eye, Ernst became modern art's first surrealist (old masters Bosch, Brueghel, Grünewald, and others had been there be fore him). All Ernst had to do was to close his eyes to see Satan hovering before him in the studio. And Ernst's Satan was easy to recognize: he invariably looked like everything that Ernst feared most...
This week Hollywood's Loew-Lewin Productions announced that Ernst was the $3,000 prizewinner in a "Temptation of St. Anthony" contest. The producers had persuaded twelve apostles of Modern Art to paint what Anthony saw. (Each artist got $500 for trying.) Ernst's winning picture will be used in a movie, Bel Ami or The History of a Scoundrel, starring George Sanders and having nothing to do with Anthony. It was not the first time Messrs. Loew and Lewin had brought art to Hollywood. Their Picture of Dorian Gray centered around a worm-crawling canvas painted...
...Ernst's prizewinner was an expert nightmare (see cut). Runners-up: Belgian Paul Delvaux, who sent a study of three disarmingly naked, disarmingly beautiful women in a ruined, neo-classical landscape; Ivan Le Lorraine Albright, for an ulcerous omelet of flesh, fish, snakes and rodents; Salvador Dali, whose desert caravan of spider-legged elephants "carrying on their backs erotic fountains, obelisks, churches and escorials" (see cut) for once was pretty comprehensible...
Alien Sin. The war brought Peggy and Surrealist Max Ernst together in Marseilles. Says she: "He had white hair and big blue eyes and a handsome, beaklike nose resembling a bird's. He was exquisitely made. . . . When I began my affair with Max Ernst it was not serious but soon I discovered that I was in love with him." They fled to the U.S. together, and while Ernst painted feathered nudes, Peggy got her Manhattan gallery under...
They were married after Pearl Harbor, because Ernst was German and Peggy "did not like the idea of living in sin with an enemy alien. . . . Max could not understand English and when he was asked to wed me, he understood wet, which he repeated...