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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 | Impressionist and Modern Works on Paper | 300 | $****** - ****** | Rêve d'une petite fille qui voulut entrer au Carmel: '...où nous avions dressé un petit purgatoire...' |
Works on Paper
15.2 x 12.1 cm (6 x 4.75 in)
paper collage on printed paper laid down on the artist's mount
signed 'max ernst' (lower right)
Julien Levy, Bridgewater, Connecticut.
Mrs Raymond J. Braun, New York, by 1979.
Acquired by the present owner circa 2008.
Paris, Galerie André François Petit, Max Ernst & Yves Tanguy: Œuvres anciennes, December 1961 (illustrated).
H. Janis & R. Blesh, Collage: Personnalities, Concepts, Techniques, Philadelphia, New York & London, 1967, no. 114, p. 101 (illustrated).
M. Ernst, Écritures, avec cent vingt illustrations extraites de l'œuvre de l'artiste, Paris, 1970, p. 207 (illustrated).
W. Spies, Max Ernst Collagen: Inventar und Widerspruch, Cologne, 1974, no. 316 (illustrated).
E. Quinn, Textes de Max Ernst, Paris, 1976, no. 194.7, p. 169 (illustrated).
W. Spies, S. & G. Metken, Max Ernst, vol. IV, Werke 1929-1938, Cologne, 1979, no. 1633, p. 36 (illustrated).
J. Pech, Studien zur religiösen Ikonographie im Werk von Max Ernst bis 1934: Der Collagenroman 'Rêve d'une petite fille qui voulut entrer au Carmel' (1930), Bonn, 1996, no. 152, [p. 326].
Exh. cat., Sprengel macht Ernst: Die Sammlung Max Ernst, Sprengel Museum, Hannover, June 18th - September 17th 2006, no. 305, p. 146.
signed 'max ernst' (lower right)
paper collage on printed paper laid down on the artist's mount
sheet: 6 x 4 3/4 in. (15.2 x 12 cm.)
mount: 6 3/4 x 5 3/8 in. (17 x 13.7 cm.)
Executed in 1929-1930
