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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jun 4, 2024 | Lempertz | Cologne | Modern and Contemporary Art - Evening Sale | 33 | $****** - ****** | Les trois philosophes (Die drei Philosophen) |
paintings
31.4 x 77.1 cm (12.36 x 30.35 in)
Oil on panel, Framed
Signed "max ernst" in black lower right
Edouard Loeb, Paris; Walter Scharf, Berlin; Galerie Wilhelm Grosshennig, Düsseldorf; Galerie Blaeser, Düsseldorf; Dr. Peter Schneppenheim Collection, Cologne; On permanent loan to the Max-Ernst-Museum Brühl until the beginning of 2024
Lübeck 1966 (Overbeck-Gesellschaft), Kontraste. Vier Möglichkeiten des Künstlerischen: Josef Albers, Karel Appel, Max Ernst, Robert Rauschenberg, cat. no. 22; Düsseldorf 1968 (Galerie Wilhelm Grosshennig), Ausstellung deutscher und französischer Meisterwerke des 20. Jahrhunderts: Gemälde, Plastik, Aquarelle, Handzeichnungen, without ill.; Düsseldorf 1976 (Galerie Wilhelm Grosshennig), Ausstellung ausgewählter deutscher und französischer Kunstwerke des 20. Jahrhunderts, with col. ill. p. 11; Berlin/Munich 1999 (Nationalgalerie/Haus der Kunst), Max Ernst - Die Retrospektive, cat. no. 165, with col. ill.; Brühl 2009 (Max Ernst Museum des LVR), Max Ernst. Schausammlung im Wechsel VI, no cat.; Brühl 2013 (Max Ernst Museum des LVR), Das 20. Jahrhundert - Werke von Max Ernst aus der Schneppenheim-Stiftung, p. 94/95 with col. ill., p. 167 f.; Brühl 2023/2024 (Max Ernst Museum des LVR), Surreal futures, p. 179 with col. ill.
Max Ernst
Les trois philosophes (Die drei Philosophen)
Circa 1955
Oil on panel. 31.4 x 77.1 cm. Framed. Signed "max ernst" in black lower right. - In very fine condition with fresh colours.
