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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Feb 28, 2018 | Christie's | London | Impressionist and Modern Works on Paper | 325 | $****** - ****** | Loplop présente Chimaera | |||
Jun 8, 2006 | Tajan | Paris | Hommage à Julien Levy | 243 | $****** - ****** | Loplop presente Chimaera | |||
Jun 8, 2006 | Tajan | Paris | Tajan (S.V.V.) | 243 | $****** - ****** | Loplop presente Chimaera |
Works on Paper
49.5 x 64.5 cm (19.5 x 25.38 in)
paper collage and pencil on paper
signed 'max ernst' (lower right)
Julien Levy, Bridgewater, Connecticut, by whom acquired directly from the artist (no. 60.1059), and thence by descent; Hommage à Julien Levy sale, Tajan, Paris, 8 June 2006, lot 243.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
New York, Museum of Modern Art, Max Ernst, March - May 1961, no. 215, p. 59, (dated '1931' and titled 'Loplop présente'); this exhibition later travelled to Chicago, The Art Institute, June - July 1961.
London, Tate Gallery, Max Ernst, September - October 1961, no. 104 (dated '1931' and titled 'Loplop Introduces').
New Haven, Yale University Art Gallery, Max Ernst, Arshile Gorky from the Collection of Julien Levy, March - May 1964, no. 12 (dated '1931' and titled 'Loplop Introduces').
Stockholm, Moderna Museet, Max Ernst, September - November 1969, no. 153 (dated '1931' and titled 'Lop-Lop présente').
Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Max Ernst, November 1969 - January 1970, no. 136, p. 26 (illustrated p. 44; dated '1931' and titled 'Lop-Lop présente').
Stuttgart, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Max Ernst, January - March 1970, no. 150, p. 151 (dated '1931' and titled 'Lop-Lop présente').
Chicago, Richard Feigen Gallery, Max Ernst from the Julien Levy Collection, April - May 1971, no. 7 (dated '1931' and titled 'Lop Lop Personnage').
State College, Pennsylvania, Palmer Museum of Art, The Pennsylvania State University, Accommodations of Desire: Surrealist Works on Paper Collected by Julien Levy, September - December 2004, p. 120; this exhibition later travelled to Brighton, Massachusetts, Boston College, McMullen Museum of Art, January - March 2005; Sacramento, California, Crocker Art Museum, July - September 2005; Knoxville, Tennessee, Museum of Art, September - November 2005; and Portland, Maine, Museum of Art, January - March 2006.
Basel, Museum Tinguely, Max Ernst: Im Garten der Nymphe Ancolie, September 2007 - January 2008, p. 220 (illustrated p. 136).
Rome, Complesso Monumentale del Vittoriano, Dada e Surrealismo riscoperti, October 2009 - February 2010, p. 438 (illustrated p. 246).
Cologne, Galerie Boisserée, Max Ernst: Skulpturen, Arbeiten auf Papier, Radierungen und Lithographien, September - November 2013, no. 1 (illustrated).
W. Spies, S. & G. Metken, Max Ernst, vol. IV, Werke 1929-1938, Cologne, 1979, no. 1758, p. 100 (illustrated).
signed 'max ernst' (lower right)
paper collage and pencil on paper
19 1/2 x 25 3/8 in. (49.5 x 64.5 cm.)
Executed in 1932
