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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jun 24, 2014 | Christie's | London | Impressionist / Modern Evening Sale | 51 | $****** - ****** | Deux jeunes filles |
paintings
100 x 81 cm (39.37 x 31.89 in)
oil on canvas
signed 'max ernst' (lower right)
Walter Schwarzenberg, Brussels
his sale, Galerie Giroux, Brussels, 1 & 2 February 1932, lot 101.Obelisk Gallery, London, by 1960.Private collection, London.Galerie Beyeler, Basel, by 1974.Viktor & Marianne Langen, Meerbusch, by whom acquired in May 1981, and thence by descent to the present owners.
London, Tate Gallery, Max Ernst, September - October 1961, no. 62, p. 35 (illustrated).Basel, Galerie Beyeler, Surréalisme et Peinture, February - April 1974, no. 16 (illustrated; dated 'circa 1929').Basel, Galerie Beyeler, Max Ernst Retrospektive, June - September 1974, no. 11 (illustrated).New York, M. Knoedler & Co., Surrealism in Art, February - March 1975, no. 52, p. 28 (illustrated).Tokyo, The Seibu Museum of Art, Max Ernst, April - May 1977, no. 53 (illustrated); this exhibition later travelled to Hyogo, Museum of Modern Art, June - July 1977.Munich, Haus der Kunst, Max Ernst Retrospektive, February - April 1979, no. 112, p. 256 (illustrated); this exhibition later travelled to Berlin, Nationalgalerie, May - July 1979.Zurich, Kunsthaus, Arnold Böcklin, Giorgio de Chirico, Max Ernst: Eine Reise ins Ungewisse, October 1997 - January 1998, no. 181, p. 373 (illustrated); this exhibition later travelled to Munich, Haus der Kunst, February - May 1998 and Berlin, Nationalgalerie, May - August 1998.Neuss, Langen Foundation, Bedürfnis Kunst. Einblicke in die Sammlung Viktor und Marianne Langen, 2007.
W. Spies, S. & G. Metken, Max Ernst, Oeuvre-Katalog: Werke 1925-1929, Cologne, 1976, no. 956, p. 85 (illustrated).V. & M. Langen, Sammlung Viktor u. Marianne Langen. Kunst des 20ten Jahrhunderts, vol. I, Ascona, 1986, p. 139 (illustrated).
