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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dec 1, 2009 | Christie's | Paris | Art Impressionniste et Moderne | 68 | $****** - ****** | Un Ami Empressé |
sculpture
65.4 cm (25.75 in)
bronze with brown patina
Le Point Cardinal Gallery, Paris (by 1961). Feingarten Galleries, Los Angeles.
Acquired from the above by the present owners, 1971
Paris, Le Point Cardinal Gallery, Max Ernst: Oeuvre sculpté, 1913-1961 , November-December 1961, no. 26 (illustrated). Buffalo, Albright-Knox Art Gallery; Minneapolis Institute of Arts and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Modern European Sculpture, 1918-1945: Other Realities , May-November 1979, p. 45, no. 18 (illustrated, fig. 39). San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Celebrating Modern Art: The Anderson Collection , October 2000-January 2001, p. 362, no. 82 (illustrated in color, p. 273, pl. 156)
M. Ernst, Max Ernst: Beyond Painting and Other Writings by the Artist and His Friends , New York, 1948, p. 89 (plaster version illustrated). M. Jean, Histoire de la Peinture Surréaliste , Paris, 1959, p. 378, no. 309 (another cast illustrated, p. 309). A. Ferrier, "Max Ernst: Sculpteur" in L'oeil , December 1961, no. 84, p. 69. J. Russell, Max Ernst: Life and Work , New York, 1967, p. 352, no. 130 (another cast illustrated, p. 331, pl. 130). W.S. Rubin, Dada and Surrealist Art , New York, 1968, p. 262, fig. 251 (another cast illustrated). J. Levy, "Hommage à Max Ernst" in XXe siècle , 1971, p. 62. U.M. Schneede, Max Ernst , Stuttgart, 1972, p. 211, no. 351 (another cast illustrated, p. 181). P. Schamoni, Max Ernst: Maximiliana, The Illegal Practice of Astronomy , Munich, 1974, (another cast illustrated, fig. 57). E. Quinn, Max Ernst , New York, 1977, p. 259, no. 313 (another cast illustrated in situ at Max Ernst's home in Seillans, p. 261, pl. 313, and p. 414). J. auf der Lake, Skulpturen von Max Ernst: Aesthetische Theorie und Praxis , Frankfurt, 1986, pp. 113-114 (another cast illustrated, figs. 29a-c). W. Spies, Max Ernst: Werke, 1939-1953 , Cologne, 1987, p. 92, no. 2472.I (another cast illustrated). J. Levy, Memoir of an Art Gallery , Boston, 2003, p. 271 (plaster version illustrated in situ ). U. Bischoff, Max Ernst: Beyond Painting , Cologne, 2005, p. 82 (another cast illustrated). J. Pech, Max Ernst: Plastische Werke , Cologne, 2005, p. 62 (plaster version illustrated, pp. 59 and 60; another cast illustrated, pp. 11 and 61-63)
