Max Ernst

signed Max Ernst (lower right)
frottage, pencil and yellow crayon on paper
43.3 by 26.3cm.
Executed in 1925.

Galerie Rive Gauche, Paris (acquired by 1952)
Little Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan
Mr. & Mrs. Barnett Malbin, Birmingham, Michigan (and sold: Sotheby's, New York, May 16, 1990, lot 55)
Galerie Orangerie-Reinz, Cologne
Galerie Brusberg, Berlin & Galerie Rudolf Zwirner, Cologne
Private Collection, Germany (and sold: Sotheby’s, London, June 27, 2001, lot 164)
Acquired at the above sale

Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, 20th Century Painting and Sculpture from The Winston Collection, 1955, no. 17
Detroit, Institute of Arts; Richmond, Virginia Museum of Art; San Francisco Museum of Art; Milwaukee Art Institute & Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, Collecting Modern Art. Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings from The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Lewis Winston, 1957-58, no. 37
Bloomington, Indiana University, Reflections, 1971, no. 52, illustrated in the catalogue
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Futurism - A Modern Focus, 1973-74, no. 40, illustrated in the catalogue
Berlin, Galerie Brusberg & Cologne, Galerie Zwirner, Hommage an Max Ernst, 1990, no. 15, illustrated in color in the catalogue
Hanover, Sprengel Museum; Karlsruhe, Badischer Kunstverein & Salzburg, Rupertinum, Die Erfindung der Natur, 1994, no. 69

Werner Spies, Max Ernst, Oeuvre-Katalog, Werke 1925-1929, Cologne, 1976, no. 882, illustrated p. 48

Executed on cream colored wove paper hinged to a mount at two places on verso. Left edge is deckled. Top, right and bottom edges are cut. Medium is bright and fresh. Pindot nick to the sheet at extreme lower right and upper left corner. Tiny artist pinhole at lower right corner. This work is in very good condition.
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This frottage is an elaboration of an earlier one entitled Come into the Continents that was published as Plate XXII in Histoire naturelle, a portfolio of 34 frottages (Jeanne Bucher, ed., Paris, 1926). Here Ernst has reduced the three glasses to one and added a crust of bread.

An exceptional example, this work was also once a treasured part of another distinguished collection, that of Mrs. Lydia Winston Malbin.