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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Feb 28, 2019 | Christie's | London | The Art Of The Surreal Evening Sale | 130 | $****** - ****** | Projet pour le monument aux oiseaux |
paintings
24.1 x 32.4 cm (9.5 x 12.75 in)
oil on canvas laid on board
signed 'max ernst' (lower left)
Jacques Ulmann, Paris.
Heinz Berggruen [Galerie Berggruen], Paris, by whom acquired from the above in 1957.
Robert & Micheline Hendrickx-Delattre, Brussels, by whom acquired from the above, by 1961.
Private collection, Milan, by whom acquired in 1996.
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Max Ernst, March - May 1961, no. 46.
Munich, Haus der Kunst, Max Ernst, February - April 1979, no. 164, p. 277 (illustrated); this exhibition later travelled to Berlin, Nationalgalerie, May - July 1979.
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Max Ernst: Dada and the Dawn of Surrealism, March - May 1993, no. 215 (illustrated fig. 202, p. 327); this exhibition later travelled to Houston, The Menil Collection, May - August 1993; and Chicago, The Art Institute, September - November 1993.
Arezzo, Museo Civico d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Da Picasso a Botero: Capolavori dell'arte del Novecento, March - June 2004, n.p. (illustrated p. 139); this exhibition later travelled to Forlì, Palazzo Albertini, June - August 2004.
Bruhl, Max Ernst Museum, Schausammlung im Wechsel, March - September 2006.
Stockholm, Moderna Museet, Max Ernst, Dream and Revolution, September 2008 - January 2009, pp. 129 & 250 (illustrated p. 128); this exhibition later travelled to Humlebaek, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, February - June 2009.
A. Breton, ed., La révolution surréaliste, no. 11, Paris, 15 March 1928, p. 31 (detail illustrated; titled 'Monument aux oiseaux').
W. Spies, S. & G. Metken, Max Ernst, Werke 1925-1929, Cologne, 1976, no. 1215, p. 219 (illustrated; with incorrect medium).
D. Sylvester, ed., René Magritte, Catalogue raisonné, vol. I, Oil Paintings, 1916-1930, London, 1992, p. 287 (detail illustrated fig. a; with incorrect cataloguing).
P. Levi, I pittori del sogno, Turin, 1997, p. 45 (illustrated).
signed 'max ernst' (lower left)
oil on canvas laid on board
9 1/2 x 12 3/4 in. (24 x 32.4 cm.)
Painted in 1927
