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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Feb 6, 2014 | Sotheby's | London | Impressionist & Modern Art Day Sale | 119 | $****** - ****** | La Terre S'effrite |
Works on Paper
20.5 x 16 cm (8.07 x 6.3 in)
frottage and pencil on paper laid down on the artist's mount
signed Max Ernst, dated 1925, and titled on the artist's mount
Paul Eluard, Paris
René Gaffé, Brussels
Galerie Berggruen, Paris
Alexander Iolas Gallery, New York
Dominique de Menil, Houston
Adelaide de Menil, Houston (thence by descent
sale: Christies, New York, 12th November 1997, lot 293)
Purchased at the above sale by the late owner
Paris, Berggruen & Cie, Max Ernst, Histoire naturelle, dessins inédits, 1956; New York, World House Galleries, Drawings, Watercolors, Gouaches by 20th Century Masters, 1959-60, no. 26; Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz Museum & Zurich, Kunsthaus, Max Ernst, 1962-63; Houston, Institute for the Arts, Rice University (& travelling), Max Ernst : Inside the Arts, 1970-72, no. 15, illustrated in the catalogue; New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Max Ernst: A Retrospective, 1975, no. 103; Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand-Palais, Max Ernst, 1975, no. 126, illustrated in the catalogue; Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin & Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Linie, Licht und Schatten. Meisterzeichnungen und Skulpturen der Sammlung Jan und Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, 1999, no. 166, illustrated in colour in the catalogue; Venice, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, The Timeless Eye. Master Drawings from the Jan and Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski Collection, 1999, no. 165, illustrated in colour in the catalogue; Madrid, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Miradas sin Tiempo. Dibujos, Pinturas y Esculturas de la Coleccion Jan y Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, 2000, no. 193, illustrated in colour in the catalogue; Munich, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Das Ewige Auge - Von Rembrandt bis Picasso. Meisterwerke aus der Sammlung Jan Krugier und Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, 2007, no. 210, illustrated in colour in the catalogue
