PROPERTY FROM A PRESTIGIOUS COLLECTION
Max Ernst
Le blanc du ciel
Live auction begins on:
October 24, 12:30 PM GMT
Estimate
120,000 - 180,000 EUR
Lot Details
Description
PROPERTY FROM A PRESTIGIOUS COLLECTION
Max Ernst
1891 - 1976
Le blanc du ciel
signed max Ernst (lower right); signed max ernst, dated 1950 and titled Le blanc du ciel (on the reverse)
oil on panel
27 x 35 cm; 10⅝ x 13¾ in.
Executed in 1950.
Hôtel Drouot, Paris, Vente au profit de George Bataille, 17 March 1961, lot 5
Sotheby's, London, 2 December 1970, lot 58
Private Collection, Paris
Galleria de Foscherari, Bologna
Private Collection, Europe (acquired from the above in the 1970s)
Christie's, London, 6 February 2006, lot 127 (consigned by the above)
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Werner Spies, Sigrid and Günter Metken, Max Ernst, Werke 1939-1953, Cologne, 1987, no. 2863, illustrated p. 287