Jeune homme au cœur battant or Sateur de mur or Oiseau vole
Estimate
800,000 - 1,200,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Max Ernst
1891 - 1976
Jeune homme au cœur battant or Sateur de mur or Oiseau vole
with the foundry mark MODERN ART FDRY. N.Y.
bronze
height (including base): 65.5 cm. 25¾ in.
Conceived in 1944; this example cast by the Modern Art Foundry, Long Island between 1953 and 1956 in an edition of 8 unnumbered casts. 3 additional posthumous casts were produced by the Modern Art Foundry, Long Island in 1994.
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, The Documents of Modern Art, New York, 1948, p. 109, plaster illustrated in a 1944 photograph of the artist's studio garage
Patrick Waldberg, Max Ernst, Paris, 1958, p. 313, another cast illustrated (titled Sauteur de murs and dated 1943)
Exh. Cat., Paris, Galerie Le Point Cardinal, Max Ernst Œuvre sculpté 1913-1961, 1961, no. 22, n.p., mahogany version illustrated
André Ferrier, "Max Ernst, sculpteur," L'Œil, no. 84, December 1961, p. 62, another cast illustrated
John Russell, Max Ernst, Leben und Werk, Cologne, 1966, no. 139, n.p., another cast illustrated
Lucy R. Lippard, "Max Ernst and a Sculpture of Fantasy," Art International, vol. XI, no. 2, 20 February 1967, p. 40, another cast illustrated
John Russell, Max Ernst, Life and Work, London, 1967, no. 139, p. 310, another cast illustrated
Uwe M. Schneede, The Essential Max Ernst, London, 1972, no. 352, p. 181, another cast illustrated
Galerie Beyeler, eds., Max Ernst, Basel, 1975, no. 63, another cast illustrated
Patrick Waldberg, Les Demeures d'Hypnos, Paris, 1976, p. 171, another cast illustrated
Edward Quinn, Max Ernst, Paris, 1977, no. 281, p. 240, another cast illustrated
Johannes auf der Lake, Skulpturen von Max Ernst, Ästhetische Theorie und Praxis, Frankfurt, Bern and New York, 1986, no. 27a, p. 214, another cast listed
Sarane Alexandrian, Max Ernst, Paris, 1986, p. 91, another cast illustrated
Werner Spies, Max Ernst, Œuvre-Katalog, Werke 1939-1953, Cologne, 1987, no. 2471.2, p. 91, another cast illustrated
Exh. Cat., Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou and Dusseldorf, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Max Ernst, sculptures, maisons, paysages, 1998, no. 69, p. 140, another cast illustrated; pp. 132-33, plaster illustrated in 1944 photographs
Ulla and Heiner Pietzsch, eds., Leben mit Kunst, Berlin, 2000, p. 167, another cast illustrated in colour
Susanne Kaufmann, Im Spannungsfeld von Fläche und Raum: Studien zur Wechselwirkung von Malerei und Skulptur im Werk von Max Ernst, Weimar, 2003, no. 143, p. 137, another cast illustrated
Werner Spies, Max Ernst – Leben und Werk, Cologne, 2005, p. 183, mahogany and plaster versions illustrated; p. 212, plaster illustrated in a 1944 photograph
Jürgen Pech, Max Ernst: Plastische Werke, Cologne, 2005, p. 64, plaster illustrated in a 1944 photograph; p. 65, another cast illustrated in a 1957 photograph; p. 66, another cast illustrated in a 1958 photograph; n.p., another cast illustrated
Exh. Cat., Salzburg, Kunsthaller Würth, Albtraum und Befreiung – Max Ernst in der Sammlung Würth, 2009, p. 11, painted plaster illustrated in colour
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; pp. 39-40, another cast illustrated in colour; p. 41, plaster illustrated in a 1944 photograph
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