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Pietà or Revolution by Night (Pietà ou La révolution la nuit) (1923) is a painting by German surrealist and Dadaist Max Ernst.The painting is interpreted as symbolic of the turbulent relationship between the artist and his father as an amateur painter and staunch Catholic. In the painting Ernst replaces the classic image of the Virgin Mary holding the crucified body of Jesus (pietà) with his father as Mary and the artist himself as Jesus.