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Property from an Important Private Collection

Max Ernst

Mespōche (Clan)

Auction Closed

March 7, 03:05 PM GMT

Estimate

20,000 - 30,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from an Important Private Collection

Max Ernst

1891 - 1976


Mespōche (Clan)

signed Max Ernst (lower right); signed Max Ernst, dated July 1919 and titled Meschpoche (on the reverse)

oil on card

35.5 by 28 cm. 14 by 11 ⅛ in.

Framed: 47.7 by 40.5 cm. 18 ¾ by 16 in.

Executed in July 1919.


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.

Lucie M. Bruder, Geneva

Susanna Rentsch, Winterthur

Grisebach Auktionen, Berlin, 24 November 2000, lot 21

Acquired from the above sale by the present owner