Impressionist and Modern Art Online
Impressionist and Modern Art Online
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8,000 - 12,000 USD
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MAX ERNST
1891 - 1976
LE FANTÔME DE LA REPOPULATION
Signed max ernst and dated 1929 (lower right)
Gelatin silver print laid down on linen
38⅝ by 35 in. (97.4 by 88.9 cm)
Framed: 43⅛ by 39⅜ in. (109.5 by 100 cm)
Executed in 1929; this photographic enlargement is unique.
Dr. Jürgen Pech has confirmed the authenticity of this work.
Jean-Placide Mauclaire, Paris
Private Collection, Paris (by descent from the above and sold: Sotheby's, London, February 5, 2002, lot 33)
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Max Ernst, La Femme de 100 têtes, Paris, 1929, illustration of the collage pl. 120
Werner Spies, Max Ernst—Collagen, Cologne, 1974, no. 282, illustration of the collage n.p.
Max Ernst: A Retrospective (exhibition catalogue), The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1975, illustration of the collage p. 145
Werner Spies, Sigrid & Günter Metken, Max Ernst, Werke, 1925-1929, Cologne, 1976, illustration of the collage p. 380
Max Ernst: Frottagen, Collagen, Zeichnungen, Graphik, Bücher (exhibition catalogue), Kunsthaus, Zurich & traveling, 1979, illustration of the collage n.p.
Gilbert Lascault, Sur la planète Max Ernst, Paris, 1991, illustration of the collage p. 90
Paris, Studio 28, Exhibition for Luis Buñuel's film "L'Âge d'or," 1930, n.n.
This work is a unique photographic enlargement made by the artist of a collage titled Et les papillons se mettent à chanter created for his first collage-novel La Femme 100 têtes, published in 1929 with a foreword by André Breton. This photograph was exhibited, along with works by Dalí, Miró and Man Ray, at the premiere of Luis Buñuel's film L'Âge d'or an event that was ransacked by an extremist group opposed to the ideas of Surrealism, and was one of the few pieces to survive the destruction. The splatters of green ink on the photograph are likely to be the result of this vandalism.