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Estimate

60,000 - 80,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Max Ernst

1891 - 1976


Loplop présente

signed max ernst and numbered 5/6 (lower right)

oil and collage on plaster

99.2 by 120.6 cm. 39⅛ by 47½ in.

Executed in 1929-68. This work is number 5 from an edition of 7.

Galerie Alexandre Iolas, Paris (acquired by 1966)

André Mourgues, Paris (acquired from the above)

Acquired from the above on 10 December 1978 by the present owner

Werner Spies, Sigrid Metken, Günter Metken and Jürgen Pech, Max Ernst: Werke 1964-1969, Cologne, 2007, no. 4365, p. 262, illustrated

Venice, Palazzo Grassi, Max Ernst Oltre la pittura, 1966, no. 1, plaster exhibited (dated 1929)