Modern Evening Auction

Modern Evening Auction

Property from a Private Collection, Switzerland

Max Ernst

Loplop de mauvaise humeur

Auction Closed

November 19, 02:32 AM GMT

Estimate

1,200,000 - 1,800,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private Collection, Switzerland

Max Ernst

(1891 - 1976)


Loplop de mauvaise humeur

signed max ernst (lower right)

oil on canvas

25 ¾ by 21 ½ in.

65.4 by 54.5 cm.

Executed in 1929.

Galeria André-Francois Petit, Paris

Galleria Galatea, Turin (acquired circa 1969)

Private Collection, Milan (acquired by 1979)

Private Collection, United States

Acquired from the above circa 2004 by the present owner

Werner Spies, Sigrid Metken and Günter Metken, Max Ernst: Werke 1929-1938, Cologne, 1979, no. 1691, p. 65, illustrated

Werner Spies, Max Ernst. Loplop, The Artist's Other Self, London, 1983, no. 37, p. 185, illustrated in color

Helmut Oehlers, Figur und Raum in den Werken von Max Ernst, Rene Magritte, Salvador Dalí und Paul Delvaux zwischen 1925 und 1938, Frankfurt, 1986, p. 115

Exh. Cat., Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou and Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Max Ernst, sculptures, maisons, payages, 1998, p. 182

Cologne, Galerie der Spiegel, Hans Arp/Max Ernst, 1960, no. 15

Paris, Galerie André-Francois Petit, Obsessions et Visions, 1968, no. 21, illustrated in color

Turin, Galleria Galatea, Selezione 9, 1969, n.n., n.p., illustrated (titled Lop lop)

Munich, Haus der Kunst and National Galerie Berlin, Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Max Ernst Retrospektive, 1979, no. 199, p. 290, illustrated; pp. 289 and 291

Sète, Musée Paul Valéry, Max Ernst, Yves Tanguy: Deux Vision du Surréalisme, 2016, no. 30, pp. 128-29, illustrated in color

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