Max Ernst
Jeune femme en forme de fleur or Femme fleur or Figure printanière
Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Max Ernst
1891 - 1976
Jeune femme en forme de fleur or Femme fleur or Figure printanière
bronze
height: 36.2 cm. 14¼ in.
Conceived in 1944 and cast between 1954 and 1961 in an edition of 9 unnumbered casts; 1 by Roman Bronze Works, Inc., New York in 1954; 4 by the Modern Art Foundry, Long Island in 1955; and 4 by the Modern Art Foundry, Long Island in 1961. 3 posthumous signed and numbered casts were produced by the Modern Art Foundry, Long Island in 1999.
Dr. Jürgen Pech has confirmed the authenticity of this work.
Alexander Iolas, Paris
Acquired from the above on 14 September 1978 by the present owner
Robert Motherwell, ed., Max Ernst, Beyond Painting And other Writings by the Artist and his Friends, New York, 1948, p. 109, plaster illustrated in a 1944 photograph of the artist's studio garage
Exh. Cat., Paris, Le Point Cardinal, Max Ernst, Œuvre sculpté 1913-1961, 1961, no. 20, p. 40, plaster illustrated in a 1944 photograph of the artist's studio garage
John Russell, Max Ernst, Leben und Werk, Cologne, 1966, no. 132, p. 325, another cast illustrated
Uwe M. Schneede, The Essential Max Ernst, London, 1972, no. 350, p. 180, another cast illustrated
Peter Schamoni, Max Ernst Maximiliana. The illegal practice of astronomy, New York, 1974, p. 58, another cast illustrated
Patrick Waldberg, Ernst, Paris, 1975, no. 76, n.p., another cast illustrated
Julien Levy, Memoir of an Art Gallery, New York, 1977, n.p., plaster illustrated in a 1944 photograph of the artist's studio garage
Angelica Zander Rudenstine, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, New York, 1985, no. 62, p. 319, another cast illustrated
Johannes auf der Lake, Skulpturen von Max Ernst, Ästhetische Theorie und Praxis, Frankfurt, 1986, no. 26, n.p., plaster illustrated in a 1944 photograph of the artist's studio garage
Werner Spies, Sigrid Metken and Günter Metken, Max Ernst: Werke 1939-1953, Cologne, 1987, no. 2464, p. 85, another cast illustrated
Exh. Cat., Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou and Düsseldorf, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Max Ernst - sculptures, maisons, paysages, 1998, p. 133, plaster illustrated in a 1944 photograph of the artist's studio garage
Werner Spies, ed., Max Ernst, Leben und Werk, Cologne, 2005, p. 183, plaster illustrated in a 1944 photograph of the artist's studio garage
Jürgen Pech, Max Ernst – Plastische Werke, Cologne, 2005, p. 59, plaster illustrated in a 1944 photograph of the artist's studio garage
Exh. Cat., Stockholm, Moderna Museet and Humlebæk, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Max Ernst, Dream and Revolution, 2008-09, p. 224, plaster illustrated in a 1944 photograph of the artist's studio garage
Exh. Cat., New York, Paul Kasmin Gallery, Max Ernst. Paramyths: Sculpture, 1934-1967, 2015, p. 4, plaster illustrated in a 1944 photograph of the artist's studio garage
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