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Painting by Max Ernst

Napoleon in the Wilderness

Artist	Max Ernst
Year	1941
Medium	Oil on canvas
Dimensions	46.3 cm × 38.1 cm (18.2 in × 15.0 in)
Location	Museum of Modern Art, New York City

Napoleon in the Wilderness is a 1941 surrealist painting by Max Ernst in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. The figure in the foreground is Ernst's partner at that time, the surrealist painter Leonora Carrington.

References

"Napoleon in the Wilderness", Museum of Modern Art
Lusty, Natalya (2007). Surrealism, Feminism, Psychoanalysis. Ashgate. p. 65. ISBN 9780754653363.

v t e Max Ernst
Paintings	Aquis Submersus (1919) Trophy, Hypertrophied (1919) Little Machine Constructed by Minimax Dadamax in Person (1919–20) Murdering Airplane (1920) The Hat Makes the Man (1920) The Elephant Celebes (1921) Of This Men Shall Know Nothing (1923) Pietà or Revolution by Night (1923) Forest and Dove (1927) The Wood (1927) The Barbarians (1937) Napoleon in the Wilderness (1941) The Eye of Silence (c. 1943–44) The Temptation of Saint Anthony (1945)
Miscellaneous	Frottage Grattage Loplop Une semaine de bonté (1934)
Related	Leonora Carrington (partner) Peggy Guggenheim (third wife) Dorothea Tanning (fourth wife) Jimmy Ernst (son) Portrait of Max Ernst (c. 1939 painting)

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