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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 18, 2021 | Phillips | New York | 20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale - Morning Session | 105 | $****** - ****** | Good | Strange Hallucination! |
Works on Paper
27 x 18.7 cm (10.63 x 7.38 in)
collage and ink on paper, mounted on card
inscribed "no 1" lower right of the collage; signed "max ernst" lower right of the handwritten letter
Executed in 1948, this work includes a collage mounted alongside an inscribed text by the artist of the poem “Täuscht Mich das Trommelfell,” the English version of which appears in Ernst’s larger work Paramyths .
Dorothea Tanning, New York
Galerie Der Spiegel, Cologne
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Los Angeles, The Copley Galleries, Max Ernst, 30 years of his work, a Survey, January 10-February 20, 1949, p. 25 (illustrated)
Kunstverein St. Gallen, Dichtende Maler-malende Dichter, 1957, no. 210 (illustrated)
Neuss, Clemens-Sels-Museum, Max Ernst, Lithographien, Radierungen, Collagen und Frottagen, July-September 1961, no. 42
Krefeld, Kunstverein, Max Ernst, Frottagen und Collagen, March-April 1972, no. 65
Max Ernst Museum Brühl des LVR, Entdeckungsfahrten zu Max Ernst Die Sammlung Peter Schamoni, February 24-June 23, 2013, pp. 104-105, 176 (illustrated, pp. 104-105)
Patrick Waldberg, Max Ernst, Paris, 1958, p. 46 (illustrated)
Max Ernst, Graphik 1919-1967, exh. cat., Worpsweder Kunsthalle, 1967, no. 14, pp. 15, 19 (illustrated, p. 19)
Max Ernst, Das graphische Werk, exh. cat., Kunsthalle, Hamburg, 1967, p. 54 (illustrated)
Lothar Fischer, ed., Max Ernst in Selbstzeugnissen und Bilddokumenten, Hamburg, 1969, p. 114 (illustrated)
Max Ernst, exh. cat., Moderna Museet, Stockholm, 1969, p. 23 (illustrated)
Max Ernst, exh. cat., Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, 1970, Schmutzpapier (illustrated)
Jean-Dominique Rey, "Max Ernst ou l'oiseau magicien," Jardin des Arts, no. 197, April 1971, p. 8 (illustrated)
Werner Spies, Max Ernst-Collagen, Inventar und Widerspruch, Cologne, 1974, no. 499, n.p. (illustrated)
Werner Spies, Sigrid Metken and Günter Metken, eds., Max Ernst Œuvre-Katalog. Max Ernst Werke 1939-1953, Cologne, 1987, no. 2673, p.193 (illustrated)
M. E. Warlick, Max Ernst and Alchemy: A Magician in Search of Myth, Austin, 2001, fig. 6.17, pp. 178-179 (illustrated, p. 179)
inscribed "no 1" lower right of the collage; signed "max ernst" lower right of the handwritten letter
collage and ink on paper, mounted on card
collage 8 1/4 x 5 3/8 in. (21 x 13.7 cm)
artist's mount 10 5/8 x 7 3/8 in. (27 x 18.7 cm)
Executed in 1948, this work includes a collage mounted alongside an inscribed text by the artist of the poem “Täuscht Mich das Trommelfell,” the English version of which appears in Ernst’s larger work Paramyths .
