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Max Ernst

Coquillage mer verte

Estimate

150,000 - 200,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Max Ernst

1891 - 1976


Coquillage mer verte

signed max ernst and dated 64-65 (lower right); dated 1965 and inscribed une armée de harengs (on the stretcher)

oil on canvas

62.4 by 76 cm. 23⅝ by 29⅞ in.

Executed in 1964-65.

Alexander Iolas Gallery, New York

Acquired from the above on 15 January 1985 by the present owner

Werner Spies, Sigrid Metken, Günter Metken and Jürgen Pech, Max Ernst: Werke 1964-1969, Cologne, 2007, no. 4026, p. 92, illustrated

Bologna, Galleria de' Foscherari, Max Ernst, 1970, no. 19, n.p., illustrated

Athens, Aithousa Technis Athinon, Max Ernst, 1978, no. 7