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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jun 21, 2011 | Christie's | London | Impressionist/Modern Evening Sale | 72 | $****** - ****** | 2 holoëder sulfate silicate picastrate u. zwillinge nach meiner wahl mit stäbchen (Two Holohedra Sulfates, Silicates, Picastrates and twins after my choice with chopsticks) |
Works on Paper
14.3 x 21.4 cm (5.63 x 8.43 in)
gouache, India ink, pencil and paper collage on paper laid down on the artist's mount
signed 'max ernst' (lower right) and titled (on the artist's mount)
Loni Pretzell (the artist's sister), Celle.
Galerie Änne Abels, Cologne.
Dieter Keller, Stuttgart, by 1962.
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, New York, 31 March 1965, lot 131.
Galleria Galatea, Turin (no. 1692), by 1966.
Private collection, Turin, by whom acquired from the above by 1967, and thence by descent; sale, Christie's, London, 21 June 2011, lot 72 (£313,250).
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Max Ernst, December 1962 - March 1963, no. 134; this exhibition late travelled to Zurich, Kunsthaus, March - April 1963.↵London, Hanover Gallery, Max Ernst, Early and Recent Paintings and Sculpture, July - August 1965, no. 9 (illustrated; titled 'Gouache').↵Turin, Galleria Galatea, Max Ernst, October - November 1966, no. 2 (illustrated).↵Turin, Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna, Le Muse inquietanti, Maestri del Surrealismo, November 1967 - January 1968, no. 86, pp. 64 & XXIII (illustrated p. 64; dated '1919').↵Stockholm, Moderna Museet, Max Ernst, September - November 1969, no. 113, pp. 28 & 77 (illustrated p. 28).↵Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Max Ernst, November 1969 - January 1970, no. 98, p. 33 (illustrated; dated '1919').↵Stuttgart, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Max Ernst, January - March 1970, no. 122, pp. 70 & 150 (illustrated p. 70; dated '1919').↵Turin, Il Fauno Galleria d'Arte, Max Ernst, November - December 1970, no. 2 (illustrated; dated '1919').
Hommage à Max Ernst', in XXe siècle, Paris, 1971, p. 28 (illustrated; dated '1919').↵U.M. Schneede, Max Ernst, Stuttgart, 1972, no. 54, pp. 32 & 207 (illustrated p. 32; dated '1919').↵W. Spies, Max Ernst - Collagen, Inventar und Widerspruch, Cologne, 1974, pp. 45, 54 & 58 (illustrated fig. 86).↵W. Spies, S. & G. Metken, Max Ernst, Werke 1906 - 1925, Cologne, 1975, no. 347, p. 175 (illustrated).
↵↵signed 'max ernst' (lower right) and titled (on the artist's mount)↵gouache, India ink, pencil and paper collage on paper laid down on the artist's mount↵Image: 4 3/8 x 6½ in. (11 x 16.6 cm.);↵Artist's mount: 5 5/8 x 8 3/8 in. (14.3 x 21.4 cm.)↵Executed in 1920
