Lot 55
  • 55

Max Ernst

Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 EUR
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Description

  • Max Ernst
  • ILLUSTRATION ORIGINALE POUR « LA BREBIS GALANTE » DE BENJAMIN PÉRET
  • signé Max Ernst (en bas à droite)
  • plume et encre de Chine, collage et gouache sur papier
  • 29,3 x 22,6 cm
  • 11 1/2 x 8 7/8 in.

Provenance

The Bodley Gallery, New York
M. & Mme Raymond J. Braun, New York
Succession de Georgie Duffee, New York (vente : Sotheby's Arcade, New York, 29 septembre 2004, lot 258)
Collection particulière, Paris

Exhibited

Atlanta, The High Museum of Art, Drawings from Georgia Collections : 19th and 20th centuries, 1981
New York, The Bodley Gallery, Max Ernst. Paintings, collages, drawings and sculptures, 1961
New York, The Museum of Modern Art & Chicago, The Art Institute, Max Ernst, 1961, no. 240

Literature

John Russell, Max Ernst. Sa vie - Son œuvre, Bruxelles, 1967, reproduit p. 8 (image inversée et sans signature)
Werner Spies, Sigrid & Günter Metken, Max Ernst, Œuvre-Katalog, Werke 1939-1953, Cologne, 1987, no. 2719, reproduit p. 218 (avec des dimensions erronées)

Condition

Executed on white wove paper, not laid down. The sheet is attached to the mount at six points along the edges. A close inspection reveals some small faint scattered smudges and stains, most notably in the triangular collage in the upper left, possibly due to the artistic process. There is a small spot of foxing to the right part of the upper edge. Apart from some light time-staining, this work is in overall very good condition.
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Catalogue Note

signed Max Ernst (en bas à droite), pen and India ink, collage and gouache on paper. Executed in 1949.