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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jun 24, 2014 | Sotheby's | London | Impressionist & Modern Art Day Sale | 350 | $****** - ****** | L'unique Et Sa Propriété |
Works on Paper
26 x 19.8 cm (10.24 x 7.8 in)
frottage and pencil on paper laid down on the artist's mount
signed Max Ernst (lower right); titled and dated 1925 on the artist's mount
Paul Éluard, Paris
René Gaffé, Brussels
Galerie Berggruen, Paris (acquired by 1956)
M & Mme Fréville, Paris
Arman, Nice
Sale: Sotheby's, London, 9th December 1997, lot 449
Purchased at the above sale by the late owner
Paris, Galerie Berggruen, Max Ernst, Histoire naturelle, dessins inédits, 1956, illustrated in the catalogue; New York, The Museum of Modern Art; Los Angeles, The County Museum of Art & Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, Dada, Surrealism and their Heritage, 1968, no. 96, illustrated in the catalogue; Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin- Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Linie, Licht und Schatten. Meisterzeichnungen und Skulpturen der Sammlung Jan und Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, 1999, no. 167; Venice, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, The Timeless Eye. Master Drawings from the Jan and Marie-Anne Krugier/Poniatowski Collection, 1999, illustrated in colour in the catalogue; Madrid, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Miradas sin Tiempo. Dibujos, Pinturas y Esculturas de la Coleccion Jan y Marie-Anne Krugier/Poniatowski, 2000, no. 194, illustrated in colour in the catalogue
Patrick Waldberg, Max Ernst, Paris, 1958, illustrated p. 59; Max Striner, L'Unique et sa Propriété, Paris, 1960, no. 75, illustrated n.p.; Max Ernst (exhibition catalogue), Galerie der Spiegel, Cologne, 1964, illustrated p. 111; William Rubin, Dada, Surrealism and their Heritage, New York, 1968, no. 160, illustrated p. 86; Werner Spies, Max Ernst - Werke 1925-1929, Cologne, 1976, no. 889, illustrated p. 51
