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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Feb 28, 2019 | Christie's | London | The Art Of The Surreal Evening Sale | 120 | $****** - ****** | Mer et soleil or Tremblement de terre |
paintings
81.6 x 65.1 cm (32.13 x 25.63 in)
oil on canvas
signed 'max ernst' (lower right)
Galerie Van Leer, Paris.
Galerie Le Centaure, Brussels.
Fernand C. Graindorge, Liège.
Edouard Léon Théodore Mesens, Brussels, by 1953.
Albert Lewin, New York, by 1958.
Cordier & Ekstrom, New York, by 1962.
Robert Fraser Gallery, London.
Karl Ströher, Darmstadt, by whom acquired from the above, in 1962, and thence by descent to the late owner.
Brussels, Galerie Le Centaure, Max Ernst, May - June 1927, no. 35, p. 8.
Knokke-Le-Zoute, Albert Plage, Casino Municipal, Max Ernst, July - August 1953, no. 36, p. 19 (titled 'Marine').
Antwerp, Comité voor Artistiche Werking, De vier hoofdpunten van het Surrealisme, April 1956, no. 5, p. 7.
Wiesbaden, Nassauischer Kunstverein, Aus der Sammlung Ströher, May - June 1963, no. 68 (illustrated; dated '1927').
Darmstadt, Hessiches Landesmuseum, Die Sammlung Karl Ströher Darmstadt, Gemälde, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, March - May 1965, no. 22, p. 21 (illustrated p. 41; dated '1927').
Lübeck, Overbeck-Gesellschaft, Kontraste vier Möglichkeiten des Künstlerischen: Josef Albers, Karel Appel, Max Ernst, Robert Rauschenberg, June - August 1966, no. 13 (illustrated; dated '1927').
Heidelberg, Kunstverein, Sammlung Karl Ströher, 1967, no. 24.
Munich, Galerie-Verein, Neue Pinakothek, Haus der Kunst, Sammlung Karl Ströher, June - August 1968, no. 49, p. 41 (illustrated); this exhibition later travelled to Hamburg, Kunstverein, August - October 1968; Berlin, Neue Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, March - April 1969; and Düsseldorf, Städtische Kunsthalle, May - June 1969.
Darmstadt, Hessischen Landesmuseum, on loan (1970-1980).
P. Waldberg, Max Ernst, Paris, 1958, p. 247 (illustrated; dated '1927').
R. de le Roi, H. Bender & E. Trier, eds., Jahresring, Beiträge zur deutschen Literatur und Kunst der Gegenwart, Stuttgart, 1966/1967, p. 2 (illustrated).
G. Bott, ed., Bildnerische Ausdrucksformen: 1910-1960, Sammlung Karl Ströher im Hessischen Landesmuseum Darmstadt, Darmstadt, 1970, p. 48 (illustrated).
W. Spies & S. & G. Metken, Max Ernst, Werke 1925-1929, Cologne, 1976, no. 1023, p. 120 (illustrated).
E. & G. Pohl & J.-K. Schmidt, Karl Ströher, Sammler und Sammlung, Ferpicloz, 1982, no. 141, p. 271 (illustrated p. 106; dated '1927').
K. Sauerländer, ed., Karl Ströher - Eine Sammlergeschichte, Frankfurt, 2005, p. 39 (illustrated in situ).
signed 'max ernst' (lower right)
oil on canvas
32 1/8 x 25 5/8 in. (81.5 x 65 cm.)
Painted in 1926
