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Property from an Important Private Collection

Max Ernst

La Mer morte or Die Wacht am toten Meer (The Watch at the Dead Sea)

Session begins in

November 19, 08:00 PM GMT

Estimate

50,000 - 70,000 USD

Bid

45,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from an Important Private Collection

Max Ernst

1891 - 1976


La Mer morte or Die Wacht am toten Meer (The Watch at the Dead Sea)

oil on panel mounted on panel

signed max ernst (lower right)

15 ⅜ by 15 ⅞ in.

39 by 40.3 cm.

Executed in 1967.

Galerie Stangl, Munich (acquired directly from the artist)

Max Ernst (returned to the artist by the above)

Iolas Gallery, New York

Werner Spies, Günter Metken and Sigrid Metken, Max Ernst, Oeuvre-Katalog, Werke 1964-1969, Cologne, 2007, no. 4290, p. 225, illustrated

Munich, Galerie Stangl, Max Ernst, 1967, no. 33, illustrated