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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 7, 2013 | Sotheby's | New York | Impressionist & Modern Art Day Sale | 180 | $****** - ****** | Gai | |||
Jun 21, 2005 | Sotheby's | London | Impressionist & Modern Art - Part II | 385 | $****** - ****** | Gai | |||
Nov 10, 1994 | Christie's | New York | Impressionist & Modern Paintings, Drawings & Sculpture - Part II | 290 | Estimates not disclosed | Gai |
sculpture
37 cm (14.57 in)
bronze
Inscribed max Ernst, numbered 4/9 and inscribed with the foundry mark Susse Fondeur Paris
Schwartz Collection, Chicago
Robert M. Light, New York & Santa Barbara
Private Collection (acquired from the above and sold: Christie's, New York, November 10, 1994, lot 290)
Acquired at the above sale
Robert Motherwell, ed., Max Ernst, Beyond Painting and other Writings by the Artist and his Friends, New York, 1948, illustration of the plaster version p. 75; Patrick Waldberg, Max Ernst, Paris, 1958, illustration of another cast p. 317 ; Max Ernst (exhibition catalogue), Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Art Institute of Chicago & The Tate Gallery, London, 1961, p. 67; John Russell, Max Ernst: Life and Work, London, 1967, no. 138, illustration of another cast p. 310; Max Ernst, a Retrospective (exhibition catalogue), The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1975, illustration of another cast p. 171; Werner Spies, Sigrid Metken & Günther Metken, Max Ernst, Oeuvre-Katalog, Werke 1929-1938, Cologne, 1978, no. 2160.1, illustration of another cast p. 309; Paul Eluard et ses amis peintres (exhibition catalogue), Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 1982-83, illustration of another cast p. 70; Max Ernst (exhibition catalogue), Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, 1983, illustration of another cast p. 156; Max Ernst, Sculture (exhibition catalogue), Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Turin, 1996, illustration of another cast p. 135; Werner Spies, Fabrice Hergott, Doris Krystof, Günter Metken & Jürgen Pech , Max Ernst - sculptures, maisons, paysages (exhibition catalogue), Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris & Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, 1998, illustration of the plaster p. 112 & illustration of another cast p. 113; Max Ernst: A Retrospective (exhibition catalogue), Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2005, illustration of another cast p. 207; Jürgen Pech, Max Ernst - Plastische Werke, Cologne, 2005, illustration of another cast pp. 39 & 41
