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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dec 1, 2021 | Phillips | London | Maximiliana: Max Ernst from the Collection of Peter Schamoni, Online Auction | 30 | $****** - ****** | Two works: (i-ii) La mer et le pluie (template for 'Histoire Naturelle', sheet I) |
Works on Paper
22.4 x 11.8 cm (8.82 x 4.65 in)
(i) graphite frottage on paper in 2 parts, with accompanying letter
(ii) collotype of whole frottage on paper
Galerie Jeanne Bucher, Paris (acquired directly from the artist)
Galerie Tarica, Paris
Galerie Thomas, Munich
Peter Schamoni, Munich
Paris, Galerie Jeanne Bucher, 36 dessins pour une Histoire Naturelle de Max Ernst , 24 April - 15 May 1926 (frottage exhibited)
Brussels, Vierge Poupine, Max Ernst, Histoire Naturelle , 16 - 29 October 1926, no. 1 (frottage exhibited)
Brühl, Max Ernst Museum Brühl des LVR, Entdeckungsfahrten zu Max Ernst / Die Sammlung Peter Schamoni , 24 February - 23 June 2013, p. 175 (frottage and collotype exhibited and illustrated, pp. 66-67)
Max Ernst, Beyond Painting and other Writings by the Artist and his Friends , New York, 1948, p. 126 (frottage illustrated)
Max Ernst, Gemälde und Graphik 1920-1950 , exh. cat., Brühle, Schloß Augustusburg, 16 March - 14 April 1951, no. 1, p. 44 (frottage illustrated)
Max Ernst, Histoire Naturelle , exh. cat., Galerie Der Spiegel, Cologne, 1964, no. 1, p. 20 (frottage illustrated)
Eva Petrová, Max Ernst , Prague, 1965, p. 26 (frottage illustrated)
Werner Spies, Max Ernst, Frottagen , Stuttgart, 1968, no. 4 (frottage illustrated)
Werner Spies, Sigrid and Günter Metken, eds., Max Ernst OEuvreKatalog. Max Ernst Werke 1925-1929 , Cologne, 1976, no. 790, p. 1 (collotype illustrated)
Jeanne Bucher: Une galerie d'avant-garde 1925-1946 de Max Ernst à de Staël , exh. cat., l'Ancienne Douane, Strasbourg, 1994, p. 88 (collotype illustrated)
David Hopkins, Marcel Duchamp and Max Ernst: The Bride Shared , Oxford, 1998, no. 103, p. 159 (collotype illustrated)
(i) graphite frottage on paper in 2 parts, with accompanying letter
(ii) collotype of whole frottage on paper
(i) frottages
22.4 x 11.8 cm (8 7/8 x 4 5/8 in.)
18.8 cm x 26.1 cm (7 3/8 x 10 1/4 in.)
(ii) collotype
49.9 x 32.2 cm (19 5/8 x 12 5/8 in.)
Frottage and collotype executed in 1925.
