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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 | The Art of the Surreal Evening Sale | 109 | $****** - ****** | Colombes et corail (Oiseaux et madrépore) | |||
Oct 13, 1994 | Christie's | London | German & Austrian Art | 170 | Estimates not disclosed | Colombes et Corail, Oiseaux et Madrepore |
paintings
49.9 x 65.1 cm (19.63 x 25.63 in)
oil, collage and pencil on paper
signed twice and dated 'max ernst 1932' (lower right)
Simone Breton-Collinet, Paris, until at least 1979.
Pascal Sernet, Paris.
Galerie André François Petit, Paris.
Galerie Brusberg, Berlin.
Anonymous sale, Christie's, London, 13 October 1994, lot 170.
The Mayor Gallery, London.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2003.
Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Max Ernst, December 1962 - March 1963, no. 174, p. 54 (dated '1926'); this exhibition later travelled to Zurich, Kunsthaus, March - April 1963.
Paris, Galerie l'Oeil, Max Ernst, December 1969.
Krefeld, Kunstverein, Max Ernst: Frottagen und Collagen, March - April 1972, no. 38, n.p..
Hannover, Kunstmuseum & Sprengel Museum, Max Ernst: Gemälde, Skulpturen, Collagen, Frottagen, Zeichnungen, Druckgrafik und Bücher, July - September 1981, no. 32, p. 68 (illustrated).
Tubingen, Kunsthalle, Max Ernst: die Welt der Collage, September - November 1988, no. 196, p. 519 (illustrated); this exhibition later travelled to Bern, Kunstmuseum, December 1988 - February 1989; and Dusseldorf, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, February - April 1989.
New York, Nassau County Museum of Art, Surrealism, September 2000 - January 2001, p. 41 (illustrated p. 41, fig. 33).
New York, Carosso Fine Arts, Max Ernst: A Natural History of the Mind, February - April 2003, no. 19, n.p. (illustrated).
Cologne, Galerie Boisserée, Max Ernst, Skupturen, Arbeiten auf Papier, Radierungen und Lithographien, September - November 2013, no. 2, n.p. (illustrated).
W. Spies & S. & G. Metken, Max Ernst: Werke 1929-1938, Cologne, 1979, no. 1859, p. 151 (illustrated).
signed twice and dated 'max ernst 1932' (lower right)
oil, collage and pencil on paper
19 5/8 x 25 5/8 in. (50.6 x 65.2 cm.)
Executed in 1932
