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| Max Ernst Eislandschaften Eiszapfen und Gesteinsarten des Weiblichen Körpers 1920 gouache and graphite on paper Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| Max Ernst The Imaginary Summer 1927 oil on board Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| Max Ernst The Kiss 1927 oil on canvas Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice |
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| Max Ernst Zoomorphic Couple 1933 oil on canvas Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice |
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| Max Ernst and Marie-Berthe Aurenche Portrait of André Breton 1933 oil on canvas private collection (sold at Bonham's, Paris, 2023) |
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| Max Ernst Preparing the Bride 1940 oil on canvas Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice |
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| Max Ernst The Antipope 1941-42 oil on canvas Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice |
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| Max Ernst Moonmad 1944 bronze Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC |
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| Max Ernst Head (from Sedona) 1948 concrete Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC |
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| Max Ernst Figure (from Sedona) Partial 1948 concrete Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC |
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| Robert Bruce Inverarity Max Ernst and Dorothea Tanning ca. 1948 gelatin silver print Archives of American Art, Washington DC |
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| Robert Bruce Inverarity Max Ernst 1949 gelatin silver print Archives of American Art, Washington DC |
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| Max Ernst Parisian Woman 1950 bronze Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC |
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| Max Ernst Beauty of the Night 1954 oil on canvas Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC |
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| Max Ernst Bosse-de-Nage Ressuscité 1959 bronze Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC |
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| Max Ernst Daughter and Mother 1959 bronze Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC |
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| Max Ernst The Red Flower 1959 oil on paper Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC |
Chorus from Troas
After Death, Nothing is, and Nothing, Death,
The utmost Limit of a gasp of Breath:
Let the Ambitious Zealot lay aside
His Hopes of Heav'n (whose Faith is but his Pride).
Let Slavish Souls lay be their Fear,
Nor be concern'd which way, nor where,
After this Life they shall be hurl'd,
Dead, we become the Lumber of the World,
And to that Mass of Matter shall be swept,
Where things destroy'd with things unborne are kept.
Devouring Time swallows us whole,
Impartial Death confounds Body and Soul:
For Hell, and the foul Fiend, that rules
God's everlasting fiery Gaols,
Devis'd by Rogues, dreaded by Fools,
(Which with grim griezly Dog, that keeps the Door)
Are sensless Stories, idle Tales,
Are sensless Stories, idle Tales,
Dreams, Whimsies, and no more.
– Seneca (4 BC-AD 65), translated by John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1674)