Ernst The Forest 6" x 9" Postcard

$3.00 at Philadelphia Museum of Art.

The "forest" in this painting is a wall of posts with the color and texture of timber, ragged tops, and the smooth finish of mechanical tubes. Rising from a platform resembling a fallen stone wall, with other posts intersecting it at a steep angle, and silhouetted against a yellow-orange sky, this strange construction takes on a monumental appearance. Forest belongs to Max Ernst’s series of works from 1921–24 known as his "collage paintings": so called because, as with the paper collages he was making at the…