MARTIN SHARP ORIGINAL - MAX THE BIRDMAN ERNST ! RARE AT AUTION ! Any Martin Sharp poster or Big O is a rare find. Today you are looking at a very rare MAX ERNST poster. Martin Sharp, an Australian artist who moved to London and became closely-associated with Oz magazine and London’s other leading psych poster designers, Michael English and Nigel Waymouth, aka Hapshash & the Coloured Coat. Sharp’s homage to the great Max was one of a number of his designs produced on metallic foil sheets, the reflective nature of which often presents difficulties for reproduction in other media. The image, from the fourth chapter of Ernst’s 1934 “collage novel” Une Semaine de Bonté. Chapter four—Wednesday; Blood—concerns the criminal travails of a series of bird-headed individuals which end in abduction, possible murder, and suicide. This poster depicts the woman stretched over the birdman’s lap and the knife piercing her foot. Still rolled. VINTAGE. RARE. NEAR MINT.

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