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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jun 24, 2014 | Christie's | London | Impressionist / Modern Evening Sale | 50 | $****** - ****** | L'entrée des fleurs or Fleurs et coquillages |
paintings
58.4 x 67.3 cm (22.99 x 26.5 in)
oil on canvas
signed 'max ernst' (lower right)
Mr & Mrs J.B. Urvater, Brussels, by 1957.Loredana Balboni, Venice, by 1975.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in the mid-1990s.
Paris, Galerie Georges Bernheim, Max Ernst, Ses Oiseaux, Ses Fleurs Nouvelles, Ses Forêts Volantes, Ses Maledictions, Son Santana, December 1928, no. 5.Venice, Palazzo Centrale, XXVII Biennale, Maestri del surrealismo, 1954.Otterlo, Museum Kröller-Müller, Les grandes collections belges: Collection Urvater, 1957, no. 35; this exhibition later travelled to Liège, Musée des Beaux-Arts.Leicester, Museum and Art Gallery, Paintings from the Urvater Collection, September - October 1958, no. 26 (dated '1929'); this exhibition later travelled to York, Art Gallery, October - November and London, Tate Gallery, November - December.Paris, Musée national d'Art moderne, Max Ernst, November - December 1959, no. 42 (illustrated pl. IV).Turin, Galleria Galatea, Max Ernst, October - November 1966, no. 12 (illustrated).Bologna, Galleria de' Foscherari, Max Ernst, November - December 1970, no. 20 (illustrated; dated '1927').New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Max Ernst: a Retrospective, February - April 1975, no. 124, p. 138 (illustrated; dated '1927').Paris, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Max Ernst, May - August 1975, no. 153, p. 160 (illustrated p. 72).
L.R. Lippard, 'Ernst and Dubuffet. A study in Like and Unlike', in The Art Journal, no. XXI, Summer 1962, p. 241 (illustrated p. 240).A. de Ridder, De levende Kunst gezien te Venetié, Brussels, 1958, vol. II, p. 281 (illustrated).P. Waldberg, Max Ernst, Paris, 1958, p. 237 (illustrated).W. Spies, S. & G. Metken, Max Ernst, Werke 1925-1929, Cologne, 1976, no. 1361, p. 292 (illustrated).
