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Estimate

35,000 - 45,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Max Ernst

1891 - 1976


Loplop présente

signed max ernst and dated / 1930 (lower right)

pencil and frottage on paper

31.1 by 22.8 cm. 12½ by 8⅞ in.

Executed in 1930.


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 94 (consigned by the above)

Alexander Iolas Gallery, New York (acquired from the above sale)

Acquired from the above in 1981 by the present owner

Werner Spies, Sigrid Metken and Günter Metken, Max Ernst: Werke 1929-1938, Cologne, 1979, no. 1719, p. 80, illustrated