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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jun 5, 2024 | Lempertz | Cologne | Modern Art - Day Sale | 210 | $****** - ****** | La mer et la pluie |
Works on Paper
16.2 x 14.9 cm (6.38 x 5.87 in)
Pencil and frottage on paper, mounted on card, Framed under glass
Signed, dated and titled "1925 la mer et la pluie max ernst" at lower edge
Paul Éluard, Paris; René Gaffé, Brussels; Galerie Berggruen, Paris; Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte Oldenburg (on long-term from the Kulturkreis im Bundesverband der deutschen Industrie); Private Collection, North Rhine-Westphalia
I.a. Paris 1956 (Galerie Bergguen), Max Ernst. Histoire Naturelle. Dessins inédits; Neuss 1961 (Clemens-Sels-Museum), Max Ernst. Lithographien, Radierungen, Collagen und Frottagen, cat. no. 50; Cologne 1961 (Kulturkreis im Bundesverband der deutschen Industrie), Ars viva, cat. no. 87 (label verso); Kassel 1964, Dokumenta III, cat. II, no. 2 (label verso); Hamburg/Frankfurt 1967 (Kunstverein/Kunstverein), Meister der Zeichnung in der deutschen Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts, cat. no. 38; Frankfurt 1968 (Kunstverein), Aus dem Traumbuch der Maler. Phantasie und Vision. Zeichnungen und Aquarelle, cat. no. 11; Stuttgart 1970 (Württembergischer Kunstverein), Max Ernst, cat. no. 187 (label verso); Krefeld 1972 (Kunstverein), Frottagen und Collagen, cat.no. 23 (adhesive label verso); Düsseldorf/Baden-Baden 1974/75 (Städtische Kunsthalle/Staatliche Kunsthalle), Surrealität-Bildrealität 1924-1974, cat. no. 57; Munich/Berlin 1979 (Haus der Kunst/Nationalgalerie), Max Ernst. Retrospektive 1979, cat. no. 91; Bonn 1985 (Städtisches Kunstmuseum Bonn), Max Ernst. Landschaften, cat. no. 7 (label verso)
Max Ernst
La mer et la pluie
1925
Pencil and frottage on paper, mounted on card. 16.2 x 14.9 cm. Framed under glass. Signed, dated and titled "1925 la mer et la pluie max ernst" at lower edge. - Faint light-stain in mat opening.
