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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.

Here is a work from the psychedelic era by 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.

Max the Birman Ernst is a lithograph and silkscreen print in blue, pink and black on silver metallic foil reflective paper. It was created by Martin Sharp as a homage to the artist Max Ernst.

This work is based on Une Semaine de Bonté. Chapter four—Wednesday; Blood. It is the story of the crimes committed by individuals with bird-like heads, though it is also said that the crimes were committed by one individual using different disguises. The crime spree ends in “abduction, possible rape/murder, and suicide.” (Organ, 2014)

Martin Sharp depicts the bird man as a human form clothed shabbily and wearing an almost lizard-like bird’s head disguise. A naked woman is draped across his bended leg with her head toward the ground and her right leg bent at the knee with her foot up in the air. The bird man’s right hand holds a knife with which he has stabbed the woman’s foot, the knife piercing all the way through the foot. The woman and the bird man’s beak and eyes are painted in bright pink, while the rest of the art work is painted in bright blue.

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Artist: Martin Sharp (Australian, 1942–2013)
Title: The Birdman, Max Ernst (Big O)
Medium: offset lithograph on silver foil/paper
Size: 75.5 x 50.5 cm. (29.7 x 19.9 in.)

MINT