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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 8, 2013 | Sotheby's | New York | Impressionist & Modern Art Day Sale | 279 | $****** - ****** | Oiseau Ovoïde |
sculpture
20 cm (7.87 in)
carved granite
Alexander Iolas, Paris
Jackson-Iolas Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above
"Max Ernst, Oeuvres de 1919 à 1936" in Cahiers d'Art, Paris, 1937, p. 87; Shuzo Kakiguchi & Tiroux Yamanaka, eds., Album surréaliste, Tokyo, 1937, p. 40; Max Ernst, Beyond Painting and Other Writings by the Artist and his Friends, The Documents of Modern Art, New York, 1948, p. 103; Max Ernst, Oeuvre sculpté 1913-1961 (exhibition catalogue), Le Point Cardinal, Paris, 1961, illustrated n.p.; Eva Petrova, Max Ernst, Prague, 1965, no. 41; Lothar Fischer, ed., Max Ernst in Selbstzeugnissen und Bilddokumenten, Reinbek, 1969, p. 86; William S. Rubin, Dada and Surrealist Art, New York, 1968, no. 245, n.p.; Max Ernst, Écritures, avec cent vingt illustrations extraites de l'oeuvre de l'artiste, Paris, 1970, p. 59; Uwe M. Schneede, Max Ernst, Stuttgart, 1972, no. 251, n.p.; Werner Spies, Max Ernst, Oeuvre-Katalog, Werke 1929-1938, Cologne, 1979, no. 2106, illustrated pp. 276-77; Max Ernst, Retrospektive (exhibition catalogue), Haus der Kunst, Munich & Staatliche Museen Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin, 1979, illustrated p. 156; Max Ernst (exhibition catalogue), Fundacion Juan March, Madrid, 1986, illustrated n.p.; Max Ernst: A Retrospective (exhibition catalogue), The Tate Gallery, London; Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart & Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, 1991, illustrated p. 310
