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Estimate

800,000 - 1,200,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Max Ernst

1891 - 1976


La Plus belle

inscribed max ernsT and numbered 00/5

bronze

height: 180 cm. 70⅞ in.

Conceived in 1967; this example cast by the Fonderia Fratelli Bonvicini, Verona between 1969 and 1974 in an edition of 9 casts. 7 additional posthumous casts were produced by the Modern Art Foundry, Long Island in the late 1990s.


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

Ulla Pietzsch and Heiner Pietzsch, eds., Leben mit Kunst. Sammlung Ulla und Heiner Pietzsch, Berlin, 2000, p. 171, another cast illustrated in colour

Werner Spies, Max Ernst Leben und Werk, Cologne, 2005, p. 301, limestone version illustrated in a photograph of the 1968 Galerie Alexandre Iolas exhibition

Jürgen Pech, Max Ernst, Plastische Werk, Cologne, 2005, p. 192, another cast illustrated (detail); p. 193, another cast illustrated

Werner Spies, Sigrid Metken and Günter Metken, Max Ernst, Œuvre-Katalog, Werke 1964-1969, vol. 7, Cologne, 2007, no. 4594.III, p. 380, another cast illustrated

Melanie Franke and Dieter Scholz, Surreale Welten. Sammlung Scharf-Gerstenberg, Berlin, 2008, no. 93, p. 181, another cast illustrated

Exh. Cat., New York, Paul Kasmin Gallery, Max Ernst. Paramyths: Sculpture, 1934-1967, 2015, limestone version illustrated in colour on the cover (detail); p. 21, limestone version illustrated in colour (detail); pp. 22, 24 and 100, limestone version illustrated in photographs of the 1968 Galerie Alexandre Iolas exhibition; pp. 27 and 90, limestone version illustrated