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Estimate

120,000 - 180,000 EUR

Lot Details

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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