Art · Skopia

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4 works

The Elephant Celebes

1921 · Tate Modern, London

Part boiler, part elephant, with a tusked hose coming out of its head. Ernst took the shape from a photograph of an African grain bin.

★ 7.2

1946 · Musees Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Brussels

Elephants on impossibly long insect legs carry obelisks and naked women across the plain while the saint holds up a makeshift cross.

★ 6.3

1937 · Private collection

Three swans on a lake, and in the reflection the necks have become trunks and the trees have become legs.

★ 6.1

1948 · Private collection

Two elephants carrying obelisks on legs far too spindly to hold them, which is the entire effect and it works.

★ 4.8