Modern Evening Auction
Modern Evening Auction
Property from a Private Collection, Switzerland
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
Catalogue note
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