Impressionist and Modern Art Day Sale

Max Ernst

Oiseau en cage

Artist's Resale RightSotheby's Ownership InterestVAT reduced rate

Lot Closed

June 30, 11:56 AM GMT

Estimate

60,000 - 80,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Max Ernst

1891 - 1976

Oiseau en cage

signed max ernst (lower right)

oil on sandpaper laid down on board in the artist's original cork frame

21.9 by 18.6cm., 8 5/8 by 7 1/4 in.

Framed: 33 by 29.6cm., 13 by 11 5/8 in.

Executed circa 1925.

Dr. Jürgen Pech has confirmed the authenticity of this work, which will be included in the supplementary volume of the Complete Works of Max Ernst now in preparation, edited by Prof. Dr Werner Spies in collaboration with Dr Jürgen Pech and Sigrid Metken.

Walter Schwarzenberg, Brussels (sold: Galerie Georges Giroux, Brussels, 1st February, 1932, lot 283)

Mr. & Mrs Jacques Bolle-Haesaerts, Brussels (acquired circa 1963)

Pontello, Italy

Private Collection, Paris (acquired in 1997)

Galerie Interart, Geneva

Acquired from the above by the previous owner in 2004

Filippo Buratti, Una Raccolta Privata d'Arte Moderna, Florence, 1988, illustrated p. 99 (as dating from circa 1925-26)

Brussels, Musée des Beaux Arts d'Ixelles, Rétrospective Le Centaure 1921-1931, Hommage à Walter Schwarzenberg, 1963, no. 68
New York, Carosso Fine Arts, Max Ernst. A Natural History of the Mind, 2003, no. 9, illustrated in the catalogue