Exquisite Corpus: Surrealist Treasures from a Private Collection
Max Ernst
Les Oiseaux qui ne peuvent pas voler
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November 21, 02:00 PM GMT
Estimate
500,000 - 700,000 USD
Bid
300,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Exquisite Corpus: Surrealist Treasures from a Private Collection
Max Ernst
1891 - 1976
Les Oiseaux qui ne peuvent pas voler
dedicated à Adrienne de Lière et Bourbousson gracieusement offert par la maison Max Ernst (lower left)
oil and grattage on canvas
31 ⅞ by 25 ⅝ in.
80.8 by 65.1 cm.
Executed in 1927.
Galerie André François Petit, Paris (acquired by 1961)
Daniel Filipacchi, Paris
Acquired by 1970 by the present owner
Paris, Galerie André François Petit, Bellmer, Brauner, Dalí, Delvaux, Ernst, Magritte, Tanguy, 1962, n.n., illustrated
Paris, Galerie André François Petit, Hans Bellmer, Salvador Dalí, Max Ernst, René Magritte, Francis Picabia, Yves Tanguy, 1963, n.n., illustrated in color
New York, Byron Gallery, Max Ernst, 1970, no. 6, illustrated (titled Fôret)
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Surrealism: Two Private Eyes, vol. I, 1999, no. 75, p. 136, illustrated in color
Das Kunstwerk, vol. 15, no. 12, 1961-62, p. 31, illustrated (titled Forêt et Colombes and dated circa 1927)
Jean Saucet, ed., Sarane Alexandrian, Max Ernst, Paris, 1971, p. 19, illustrated in color
Sarane Alexandrian, Dictionnaire de la peinture surréaliste, Paris, 1973, p. 23, illustrated in color (dated 1928)
Werner Spies, Sigrid Metken and Günter Metken, Max Ernst: Werke 1925-1929, Cologne, 1976, no. 1182, p. 202, illustrated
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