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===Exhibitions, retrospectives, and honors=== * [[Venice Biennale]], Venice (1954), received Grand Prize for Painting * [[Musée National d'Art Moderne]] Paris (1959), awarded the Grand Prix national des arts * [[Museum of Modern Art]], New York (1961) * [[Tate Gallery]], London (1962) * [[Kunsthaus Zürich]] (1963) * [[Moderna Museet]], Stockholm (1969) * A retrospective of 104 works spanning the years 1920–1968, drawn entirely from the [[Menil Collection]], toured Europe from 1970 to 1972 ([[Hamburger Kunsthalle]], [[Kestnergesellschaft]], [[Frankfurter Kunstverein]], [[Academy of Arts, Berlin]], Kunsthalle, Cologne, [[Musée de l'Orangerie]], [[Musée Cantini]], [[Maison de la Culture de Grenoble]], [[Ancienne Douane (Strasbourg)]], [[Musée d'Arts de Nantes]]) and later the US ([[Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art]], [[Fogg Art Museum]], [[The Art Institute of Chicago]], [[Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum]]) The opening of the exhibition in Paris was augmented with 44 pieces from various collations and opened on 2 April 1971, Max Ernst's 80th birthday.{{sfn|Hofmann|Schmied|Spies|1973|p={{page needed|date=December 2021}}}} * In 2005, "Max Ernst: A Retrospective" opened at the [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]] and included works like ''Celebes'' (1921), ''Ubu Imperator'' (1923), and ''Fireside Angel'' (1937), which is one of Ernst's few definitively political pieces and is sub-titled ''The Triumph of Surrealism'' depicting a raging bird-like creature that symbolises the wave of fascism that enveloped Europe. The exhibition also includes Ernst's works that experiment with free association writing and the techniques of [[frottage (art)|frottage]], created from a rubbing from a textured surface; [[Grattage (art)|grattage]], involving scratching at the surface of a painting; and [[decalcomania]], which involves altering a wet painting by pressing a second surface against it and taking it away.<ref>{{Cite journal|title=A Max Ernst Retrospective Opens Today in NY|journal=Art+Auction|date=7 April 2005|url=http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/117/a-max-ernst-retrospective-opens-today-in-ny/|access-date=23 April 2008}}</ref> * ''Dada is Dada'' retrospective group exhibition at [[Bildmuseet]], Umeå University, Sweden, running from 17 November 2017 to 20 May 2018<ref name="Bildmuseet">{{cite web |title=DADA IS DADA |url=http://www.bildmuseet.umu.se/en/exhibition/dada-aer-dada/30574 |website=Bildmuseet |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171224064353/https://www.bildmuseet.umu.se/en/exhibition/dada-aer-dada/30574 |archive-date=December 24, 2017 |url-status=dead}}</ref> '''Documentary images''' <gallery mode="packed" heights="120px"> File:Exposition Max Ernst Paris 1921.jpg|Opening of the Max Ernst exhibition at the gallery Au Sans Pareil, May 2, 1921. Left to right: René Hilsum, [[Benjamin Péret]], [[Serge Charchoune]], [[Philippe Soupault]] (top of the ladder), [[Jacques Rigaut]] (upside down), [[André Breton]] and Simone Kahn-Breton File:Houghton Typ 915.22.3605 Répétitions, 1922 - cover.jpg|Cover of ''Répétitions'' (1922) by [[Paul Éluard]], with illustrations by Max Ernst File:Les Fusains.jpg|"Les Fusains": 22, rue Tourlaque, [[18th arrondissement of Paris]] where Max Ernst established a studio in 1925 File:Max Ernst Der Assistent-Der Frosch-Die Schildkroete 1967.jpg|Three bronze sculptures: left to right: ''Large Frog'' (1967), ''Turtle'' (1944), and ''The Spirit of the Bastille'' (1961), [[Lenbachhaus]], Munich File:Max-Ernst-Museum 02.jpg|Max Ernst Museum, Brühl, Germany (photo 2004) </gallery>
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