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This artist painted a moonlit urban landscape in The Petrified City, made during a trip to Angkor Wat (-5[1])after the end of his ménage à trois with Gala and Paul Éluard. Lewd children’s rhymes inspired the title of a painting by this artist whose main figure is modeled on a Konkomba corn bin. This husband of Dorothea Tanning cut up Victorian pulp fiction for A Week of Kindness and other collage novels. An open gate and a knob protrude from a painting by this artist in which a girl holds a knife up to a bird. This artist, whose alter ego was named (10[1])Loplop, scratched paint and rubbed pencil onto uneven surfaces in his methods of grattage and frottage. For 10 points, what German-born surrealist painted Ubu Imperator, The Elephant Celebes, and Two Children Are Threatened by a Nightingale? (10[1])■END■ (0[2])

ANSWER: Max Ernst [or Maximilian Maria Ernst]
<Toronto B, Painting and Sculpture>
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Summary

TournamentEditionTUHConv. %Neg %Average Buzz
California2025-02-013100%0%72.67
Lower Mid-Atlantic2025-02-01633%0%115.00
Midwest2025-02-016100%33%97.50
Northeast2025-02-01450%25%120.00
Pacific Northwest2025-02-012100%50%139.00
South Central2025-02-012100%0%119.00
Southeast2025-02-011100%0%95.00
UK2025-02-015100%0%98.80
Upper Mid-Atlantic2025-02-01771%14%120.00