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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Feb 9, 2011 | Christie's | London | The Art of The Surreal Evening Sale | 114 | $****** - ****** | Ci meurent les cardinaux |
paintings
89 x 116.2 cm (35.04 x 45.75 in)
oil on canvas
signed and dated 'max ernst 62' (lower right)
Gallerie Alexandre Iolas, New York, Paris and Milan. Galleria d'Arte Galatea, Turin. Paolo Marinotti, Milan.
Private collection, Switzerland, by whom acquired circa 2000.
Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Max Ernst, December 1962 - March 1963, no. 119; this exhibition later travelled to Zurich, Kunsthaus, March - April 1963. London, Hanover Gallery, Max Ernst, early and recent paintings and sculpture, July - August 1965, no. 21 (illustrated). New York, The Jewish Museum, Max Ernst, Sculpture and recent painting, March - April 1966, no. 30, p. 16 (illustrated). Venezia, Palazzo Grassi, Max Ernst: oltre la pittura, June - October 1966, no. 30 (illustrated). Rome, Museo del Corso, Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Roma, Max Ernst e i suoi amici Surrealisti, July - November 2002. Vaduz, Kunstmuseum, Durchleuchtet : Dialog mit der Sammlung, March - May 2004, no. 11. Vaduz, Kunstmuseum, Dialog: Europa - Amerika, June - September 2004. Bruhl, Max Ernst Museum, Schausammlung im Wechsel, 2006. Stockholm, Moderna Museet, Max Ernst. Dream and Revolution, September 2008 - January 2009, p. 207 (illustrated); this exhibition later travelled to Humlebæk, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art. Tours, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Max Ernst, Le jardin de la France, October 2009 - January 2010, p. 209 (illustrated p. 83). Vaduz, Kunstmuseum, Von der (un) schärfe der Welt, September 2010 - January 2011.
G. Di San Lazzaro, 'Hommage à Max Ernst', in XXe siècle, 1971, p. 123 (illustrated). Exh. cat., La Galerie des Arts, Paris, 1965, no. 30, p. 8 (illustrated). E. Quinn, Max Ernst, London, 1977, no. 406, p. 330 (illustrated). P. Gimferrer, Max Ernst ou la dissolution de l'identité, Paris, 1979, no. 140 (illustrated). W. Spies, Max Ernst Werke 1954-1963, Cologne, 1998, no. 3621, p. 297 (illustrated). W. Spies, Max Ernst, Life and Work, London, 2006, p. 350 (illustrated p. 269).
