Max Ernst
J'ai bu du tabourin, j'ai mangé du cimbal
Estimate
1,200,000 - 1,800,000 USD
Lot Details
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Max Ernst
(1891 - 1976)
J’ai bu du tabourin, j’ai mangé du cimbal
signed max ernst (lower left); signed again, dated 1940 and inscribed Made in France (on the reverse)
oil on paper mounted on board
13 ⅝ by 10 ¼ in. 34.5 by 26.1 cm.
Executed in 1940.
Gypsy Rose Lee, New York (acquired directly from the artist by 1942 and until at least 1959)
Cordier & Ekstrom, New York
Acquired by February 1972 by the present owner
New York, Valentine Gallery, Exhibition Max Ernst, 1942, no. 5 (dated 1939)
New York, Cordier & Ekstrom, Bestiary, 1972, pl. 8, illustrated in color (titled Untitled and with incorrect support)
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Surrealism: Two Private Eyes, 1999, vol. I, no. 79, p. 140, illustrated in color
View, vol. II, no. 1, April 1942 (dated 1939)
Joseph Masheck, “The Bestiary,” Artforum, vol. 10, issue 8, April 1972, p. 88 (titled Untitled)
Sarane Alexandrian, Dictionnaire de la peinture surréaliste, Paris, 1973, p. 22, illustrated in color
Werner Spies, Sigrid Metken and Günter Metken, Max Ernst: Werke 1939-1953, Cologne, 1987, no. 2360, p. 30, illustrated (with incorrect support)
Julia Drost, Fabrice Flahutez and Anne Helmreich, et al., eds., Networking Surrealism in the USA: Agents, Artists, and the Market, Heidelberg, 2019, p. 178 (in reproduction of checklist for New York, Valentine Gallery, Exhibition Max Ernst, 1942); p. 191
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