Max Ernst
Le Père: "Votre baiser me semble adulte, mon enfant, Venu de Dieu, il ira loin. Allez, ma fille, allez en avant et..."
Estimate
18,000 - 25,000 GBP
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Max Ernst
1891 - 1976
Le Père: "Votre baiser me semble adulte, mon enfant, Venu de Dieu, il ira loin. Allez, ma fille, allez en avant et..."
signed max ernst (on the artist's mount)
collage mounted on paper
sheet: 24.3 by 19.3 cm. 9½ by 7⅝ in.
artist's mount: 30 by 23.3 cm. 11⅞ by 9⅛ in.
Executed in 1929-30.
Formerly in the collection of Julien Levy.
Julien Levy, New York and Connecticut (acquired from the artist)
Sotheby's, New York, The Julien Levy Collection, 4 November 1981, lot 96 (consigned by the above)
Alexander Iolas Gallery, New York (acquired from the above sale)
Acquired from the above in 1981 by the present owner
Max Ernst, Rêve d'une petite fille qui voulut entrer au Carmel, Paris, 1930, n.p., illustrated
Max Ernst, Écritures, Paris, 1970, n.p., illustrated
Werner Spies, Sigrid Metken and Günter Metken, Max Ernst: Werke 1929-1938, Cologne, 1979, no. 1589, p. 14, illustrated
Exh. Cat., Stockholm, Moderna Museet and Louisiana, Museum of Modern Art, Max Ernst Dream and Revolution, 2008-09, p. 216, illustrated
San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Illusionism & Trompe l’œil, 1949, n.n., p. 73
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